AMD Radeon 540 vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

AMD Radeon 540

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (39W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +157%

0.908 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2010

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

4

-

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

39W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Redwood

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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