AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +238%

4.104 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

32

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

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

32.06 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tonga

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

366 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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