AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +83%

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Oct 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

8

-

1120

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Baffin

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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