AMD Radeon 550 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

AMD Radeon 550

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Radeon 550

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV570

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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