AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 330 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1218MHz vs 855MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +127%

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 330 OEM

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

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Radeon R5 330 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2015

Polaris

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

830 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

5

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Hainan

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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