AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

VS

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +373%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

44

-

512

Shading Units

2816

32

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

500W

250 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Vesuvius

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

438 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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