AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

AMD Radeon 550 AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1284MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +334%

5.259 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2018

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

32

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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