AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +576%

8.192 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2015

Polaris

Generation

Pirate 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

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

64bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

64

-

512

Shading Units

4096

32

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Fiji

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

596 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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