Testing - Benchmarks

To check out the performance of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550, I ran a series of popular benchmarks. To make things more interesting, I ran the same tests on a Sapphire Radeon HD 4650, the next Radeon GPU up the scale of pricing and performance.

The HD 4550 really struggled through the graphics intensive benchmarks, with FPS similar to cards like the geForce 7600 series, and maybe the 8600GT. Keeping in mind that those cards cost $150 or more in their day, the little 4550 doesn't look so bad.