AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP ATI Radeon HD 5670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 64W)

ATI Radeon HD 5670 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP +121%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5670

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 5670

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2010

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

5

640

Shading Units

400

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Redwood

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

64W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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