AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +9%

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE

1.101 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

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Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic 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

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

10

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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