The HD 4550 isn't aimed at gamers at all, but that didn't stop us before looking at gaming on a HD 3450. Today we'll run the HD 4550 on a very grueling array of benchmarks, trying to squeeze every last electron of performance out of it, seeing how it stacks up to last week's HD 4670, last generation's value-priced HD 3450, and older generation mid-range 8600 GTS and HD 2600 XT cards. We're going to punish the HD 3450 both in the name of fun and science. Sure, the HD 4550 marketeers never claimed it could handle high res', high quality gaming -- but we wanted to see just where the breaking point is; and just how big this break is indeed.