ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +1303%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Aug 2016

Evergreen

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

32

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

39W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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