AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R7 265

VS

AMD Radeon 550 AMD Radeon R7 265

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1183MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265 +56%

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon R7 265

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

16

512

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

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

29.60 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

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

1x 6-pin

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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