AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +332%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 310 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

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Radeon R5 310 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2015

Polaris

Generation

Pirate Islands

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

2

512

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Caicos

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

35W

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

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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