AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon 550 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1600MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +982%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2017

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

64bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

64

512

Shading Units

4096

32

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Vega 10

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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