AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1824 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +1040%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Sea Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

36

-

480

Shading Units

2304

24

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

232 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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