AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +99%

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Polaris

Generation

Sea Islands

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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

6

-

512

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

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 Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Turks

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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