AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon X550 XTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 4.800GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jan 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon R300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
4.800GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV410
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.12 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
156 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
-
