AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R9 285

VS

AMD Radeon 550 AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +171%

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

28

512

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tonga

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

190W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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