Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon HD 4290 | Radeon 9550 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4297% | 7007% |
| Hitman 3 | 5620% | 9145% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 3921% | 6400% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 4297% | 7007% |
| FIFA 21 | 2118% | 3485% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 6087% | 9900% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 3791% | 6189% |
| Genshin Impact | 4297% | 7007% |
| The Medium | 5386% | 8768% |
| Far Cry 6 | 6262% | 10183% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 4290 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon 9550.
The Radeon HD 4290 was released over three years more recently than the Radeon 9550, and so the Radeon HD 4290 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the Radeon 9550 when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
The Radeon 9550 has 128 MB more video memory than the Radeon HD 4290, so is likely to be slightly better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the Radeon 9550 also has superior memory performance overall.
The Radeon 9550 has 3.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Radeon HD 4290, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon 9550 is marginally better than the Radeon HD 4290.
The Radeon HD 4290 has 40 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon 9550 has 4. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 4290 is 18 and the actual shader performance of the Radeon 9550 is 1. The Radeon HD 4290 having 17 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Radeon HD 4290 delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the Radeon 9550.
| Core Speed | 700 MHz |  | vs | 250 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | RS880D | RV350 | |||
| OC Potential | None |
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| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 01 Mar 2010 | | vs | 02 Jan 2004 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| Memory | N/A | vs | | 256 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | - | vs | | 200 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 32 Bit | vs | | 128 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR2 | | vs | DDR | |
| Memory Bandwidth | - | vs | | 3.2GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | - | vs | - | ||
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 40 | | vs | 4 | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 1% | | vs | 0% | |
| Technology | 55nm | | vs | - | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 4 | | vs | - | |
| Texture Rate | 2.8 GTexel/s | | vs | - | |
| Render Output Units | 4 | | vs | - | |
| Pixel Rate | 2.8 GPixel/s | | vs | - | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | - | vs | | 2048x1536 | |
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| VGA Connections | 1 | | vs | | 1 |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | - | - | |||
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| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 10.1 | | vs | 9 | |
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| Shader Model | 4.1 | | vs | 2.0 | |
| Open GL | 3.2 | | vs | 2.0 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | | yes | |
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| Recommended Processor | - | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | - | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | - | - | |||
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| Mini Review | Radeon HD 4290 (IGP) is an integrated GPU on the AMD 890GX Chipset. It's based on the RS880D Core and offers 40 Shader Processing Units, 4 TMUs and 4 ROPs a 32-bit memory interface of either DDR2 (more commonly) or DDR3. The central unit runs, commonly, at up to 700MHz and the memory clock's operating speed depends on the system RAM's speed. Radeon HD 4290's performance depends on the users system configuration which will define the operating memory clock's speed and on the desktop manufacturer which decides its central unit's speed. Therefore, Radeon HD 4290, even if paired with DDR3 won't offer similar performance to the dedicated Radeon HD 4350. DirectX 11 games aren't supported. | The Radeon R300 (introduced August 2002) is the third generation of Radeon graphics chips from ATI Technologies. The line features 3D acceleration based upon Direct3D 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0, a major improvement in features and performance compared to the preceding Radeon R200 design. R300 was the first fully Direct3D 9-capable consumer graphics chip. The processors also include 2D GUI acceleration, video acceleration, and multiple display outputs. R300 refers to the development codename of the initially released GPU of the generation. R300 and its derivatives would form the basis for ATI's consumer and professional product lines for over 3 years. The integrated graphics processor based upon R300 is called Xpress 200. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | - | |||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||