ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +1065%

4.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

32

-

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Tonga

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

5 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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