AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +271%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

20

-

480

Shading Units

1600

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

294W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Hemlock

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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