AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 6 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +556%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

32

-

480

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Malta

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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