Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon HD 4550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)
2224 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+7315%
7119
Radeon HD 4550
96
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Sep 2008
Polaris
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
-
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
655 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
10.48GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
1
2304
Shading Units
80
144
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
96.00 GFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
25W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.0
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
RV710
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
RV710
(215-0725016)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
