AMD Radeon R9 370X vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 370X AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X +322%

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

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Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

Turks

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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