Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition vs Radeon 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (67.20GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)
Radeon 550 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1183MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Apr 2017
Radeon R500 PCIe
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1100 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
56.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
10.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VHDCI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R580+
GPU Name
Lexa
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
R500
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
90 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.384 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
