AMD Radeon R9 FURY X vs AMD Radeon 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY X +589%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Mar 2019

Pirate Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

8

4096

Shading Units

512

256

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

8.602 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Lexa

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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