AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD FireStream 9270

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +3%

1.247 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Nov 2008

Polaris

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

10

-

512

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV770

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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