AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7990 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 375W)

Score

Radeon HD 7990

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Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

RV516

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

27W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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