AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +523%

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

2

512

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Caicos

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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