AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +1%

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2012

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

12

-

512

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

85W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tahiti

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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