AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +28%

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2012

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

16

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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