AMD Radeon 550X vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +1198%

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4550

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon HD 4550

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Sep 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

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

655 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

1

512

Shading Units

80

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV710

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

None

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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