VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 5550 1 GB DDR PCI Express Graphics Card (900331) Reviews

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Product Features

1 GB, Engine clock speed: 550 MHz
Full DirectX 11 support for rich, realistic visuals and HD gaming performance
ATI Radeon HD 5550 Series GPUs fully support Microsoft DirectX 11
Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond.
With ATI Avivo HD technology, the latest Blu-ray and HD DVD movies play as smoothly as intended: at True HD 1080p
Enjoy a more feature rich experience with enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The VisionTek ATI Radeon™ HD 5550 graphics card offers the most features and functionality in its class with complete DirectX 11 support and the world’s most advanced graphics, display features and technologies. Designed to deliver a feature laden gaming/computing experience, ATI Radeon™ HD 5550 enables a seamless HD gaming experience with amazing image quality. At the “heart” of the entertainment experience on the PC, things like video playback, editing and transferring content to portable media players are now fast and easy. Supports Windows 7 and future DirectX®11 games giving users incredible system performance in an energy efficient card that is easy to install with no external power supply needed. Lifetime Warranty!

DUAL MONITOR SUPPORT

Microsoft DirectX® 11 Support

ATI Radeon™ HD 5550 Series GPUs fully support Microsoft DirectX® 11, enabling the following:
Tessellation is now available to PC developers for real-time rendering with ultra-realistic characters and an incredible level of detail with 3D images
HDR Texture compression delivers an intense level visual detail without increasing graphics memory
footprint with efficiency and incredible image quality
Multi-threading support for DirectX® 11 accelerates rendering by leveraging all the CPU cores to enable overall faster gaming performance
DirectCompute improves PC performance by taking on some or all of a DirectX 11-enabled application’s processing load, freeing up the computer’s main processor to take on additional tasks.

Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master AudioTM Support

Support of content protected, high bandwidth, 7.1 channels of surround sound over HDMI

ATI Avivo™ Technology Enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)

Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond and enjoy a more feature rich experience with enhanced Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2)

Enhanced UVD 2 now support hardware acceleration decode of dual 1080p HD video streams9
Brighter Whites processing increases the blue value of white colors for brighter and more vivid video playback
Independent Video Gamma Control allows you to set video gamma independently from Windows desktop for a better viewing experience
Dynamic Video Range Control enables user to control levels of black and white during playback

Features

Full DirectX®11 support for rich, realistic visuals and HD gaming performance
Compliant with DirectX® 11 and earlier revisions
ATI Stream technology to help speed up your PC Multi-monitor support
Offers superior stability and reliability with ATI Catalyst™ software
Designed for DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL Accelerated
Video Transcoding (AVT)
Supports OpenGL 3.2
ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology
ATI PowerPlay™ technology
PCI Express® 2.0 support
ATI Crossfire X

Speeds & Feeds

Engine clock speed: 550 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 352 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 550M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 35.2 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 8.8 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 4.4 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 17.6 Gigasamples/sec
Maximum board power: 45 Watts
Idle board power: 10 Watts

System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
300 Watt or greater power supply recommended
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
Minimum 1GB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive

What’s in the Box:

ATI Radeon™ HD 5550 graphics card 900331
Set-up CD
Quick install guide
PDF manual on CD

Supported Configurations:

HDMI video and audio (may require adapter)
Dual link DVI
Dual DVI (adapter required- sold separately)
VGA
Dual VGA (adapter required- sold separately)

Customer Reviews

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“I dropped this in and it worked like a charm. ”Eyeseeitall | 2 reviewers made a similar statement

“So you can easily use which ever one suit you best. ”G. Max Gooding | 1 reviewer made a similar statement

“The overall performance of my PC improved noticeably. ”Greg G.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 starsBest in It's Price RangeDecember 21, 2010

By Greg G.

I upgraded to this card about three weeks ago and I've been in gaming heaven ever since.The Pros: with support for DirectX 11 it has no problem playing all of the latest games. In recent weeks I've played Starcraft 2, Civilization V, the Warhammer, Age of Empires and Company of Heroes series and expansions and they all look fantastic and play smoothly.I'm running this card on a Dell Inspiron 530 with an Intel 2.2 dual core processor and only 2GB of RAM. Not exactly a high powered gaming system but I'm still getting great performance.On the Windows 7 "Windows Experience Index" my system earned a score of 6.6 in the "3D business and gaming graphics performance" category. That's a pretty decent score for an off the shelf system not specifically build for gaming.I've had a lot of fun with this card. It has and HDMI output so one day I hooked it up to our 55' Sony TV/Monitor via it's HDMI input and experienced Starcraft 2 like never before.Outstanding performance running Windows 7 and everyday non-gaming applications like Office 2010, MSN Premium, Norton, Nero and Roxio.The Catalyst Control Center (CCC) is the software/utility which installs and manages the card. If you like, you can use CCC to tweak the card and can be used in either basic or advanced mode. I've experimented with the CCC to overclock this card using the AMD Overdrive utility. If you enjoy tweaking computers to get maximum performance you'll love this utility.I haven't read the small print but the box says Lifetime guarantee; I have nvidia cards on other computers on our home network and love then but none come with a lifetime guarantee.Cons: none yet. If there are problems down the road the lifetime guarantee should cover it unless my overclocking voided the guarantee.Summary: I researched the other cards in this price range and hands down this card tops them all. Gaming performance is very good and everyday word processing, email, CD burning, netflix streaming etc., is fantastic. I'm really enjoying this card and the boost it gave my system. The overall performance of my PC improved noticeably.

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