AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1071MHz vs 1050MHz)

Lower TDP (60W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +96%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Baffin

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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