AMD Radeon RX 550 vs ATI Radeon X1550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 50W)

Score

Radeon RX 550

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV516

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

UMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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