AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +291%

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235X OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

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Radeon R5 235X OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Dec 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

2

512

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Caicos

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

18W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

None

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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