AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM +62%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2013

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

1625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

14

-

512

Shading Units

896

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 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

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Bonaire

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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