AMD Radeon R9 285X vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 285X

VS

Radeon X550 XT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

RV410

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.12 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

156 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

-

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