AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 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)

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM +79%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Dec 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

14

512

Shading Units

896

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Bonaire

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

85W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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