AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +677%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

40

-

480

Shading Units

2560

24

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Hawaii

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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