AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 300W)

Score

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2007

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR2

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

-

256

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

RV516

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

UMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

27W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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