AMD Radeon RX 550X vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X +1064%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon HD 6230

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jul 2011

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

2

512

Shading Units

80

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Park

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Park S3 LP

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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