AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X 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 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1071MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM 's Advantages

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265X OEM +115%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Aug 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

20

-

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Curacao

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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