AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +280%

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Nov 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

3

512

Shading Units

240

32

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

R600

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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