ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +1500%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

44

-

320

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

290W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

Hawaii

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

438 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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