3D Rage IIC PCI vs Radeon 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon 550 's Advantages
Released 20 years late
Boost Clock1183MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Apr 2017
Rage 2
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1100 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
2GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
56.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
Shading Units
512
1
TMUs
32
1
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Lexa
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Rage 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
UMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
500 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
Shader Model
6.7
