AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

RV570

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

57W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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