AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI Radeon X1550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 375W)

Score

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV516

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

27W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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