AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930

AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 186W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930 +58%

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Apr 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

8

-

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

186W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Lexa

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

103 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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