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Sapphire Radeon HD 5550 Ultimate 1GB GDDR2 PCIe

Based on 7 reviews

Excellent:

2
Good:

3
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros

Excellent Passive VPU Cooler, Build quality
Runs Cool, Complete silent operation, DVI, VGA, and HDMI ports, DirectX 11 support
Silent Passive Cooling, Performance, Versatility, Native CrossfireX Ready, DX11.

Cons

Needs Faster Memory, Availability, Faster Cards are Available Cheaper
A bit pricy
Price, gold

By TweakNews on July 07, 2010

Sapphire's Ultimate Edition HD 5550 is a videocard that has the structure and poise of a good videocard, but is lacking in a couple fundamental foundation elements to be deemed anything "Ultimate". For one, this label and excellent cooler...

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By TechRadar on June 26, 2010

You can tell the Sapphire 5550 Ultimate isn't a high-end graphics card from the off; the box isn't a ridiculous size. As the name suggests, it slots neatly between a 5870 and 5450 and offers a DX11 card at a budgety price. Performance is...

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By Bjorn3D on June 17, 2010

The AMD HD 5550 Ultimate may be hard to sell due to its pricing. It is fighting in the price range that is already filled with many competitors. AMD’s own HD 5670 sits at $10 above and has a better performance while the NVIDIA GT 240 that is...

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By IT Reviews on June 16, 2010

A good choice for videophiles demanding a passive yet fully-featured HTPC card, but everyone else will be far better catered for by the identically priced 5670. Sapphire - Radeon HD5550 Ultimate 1GB price Buy Sapphire Radeon HD5550 Ultimate 1GB...

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By Expert Reviews on June 13, 2010

The most powerful passively-cooled 5000-series card to date; but it’s overkill for simple video acceleration, yet not quick enough to satisfy most gamers....

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By Kitguru.net on June 12, 2010

You really can’t go wrong with the Sapphire HD5550, they have improved on the already excellent reference design and have produced probably the finest media card available...

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By Motherboards.org on June 11, 2010

The Sapphire Ultimate HD 5550 video card is an interesting card in that it doesn’t have all of the performance of its bigger brother the HD 5870, but still gives a good gaming performance with games as long as you are willing to lower the...

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By LanOC Reviews on June 09, 2010

After spending a little time with the HD5550 Ultimate from Sapphire I have a new appreciation for mid-range cards. I was expecting the performance to be subpar at best for gaming and was surprised to find out that this card can and will perform well...

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By TechEye on May 31, 2010

At the factory clock speed the two 5550s were nearly indistinguishable, and although the Sapphire card over-clocked slightly better, there's not much advantage to this when you're talking about the mainstream market. The 5450 came in...

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By Techgage on May 10, 2010

" page, but the HD 5550 is a unique product that just perplexes me. I mentioned in the introduction page that I couldn't quite figure out the purpose of this card, and that hasn't changed. As far as I'm concerned, and I'm sure I'm...

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