AMD Radeon 550 vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

VS

AMD Radeon 550

ATI Radeon HD 5490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +1064%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2012

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

2

-

512

Shading Units

80

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 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)

-

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 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cedar

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

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

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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