ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 254W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +336%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Sep 2011

Evergreen

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

12

-

320

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

254W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Barts

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

2

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA P104 100

3

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs Intel Arc A350

4

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

5

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs Intel Arc A770

6

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

7

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

8

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

9

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

10

ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs AMD Radeon PRO W7500

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!