AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 302W)
ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
0.624 TFLOPS
ATI Radeon HD 5950
+234%
2.088 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Unknown
Sea Islands
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
18
-
-
-
480
Shading Units
1440
24
TMUs
72
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
624.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
302W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Turks
GPU Name
Hemlock
Turks PRO
(215-0803002)
GPU Variant
Hemlock PRO
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.716 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
5.0
Shader Model
5.0
