AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

1824 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +834%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

Arctic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

6

2304

Shading Units

480

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Turks

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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