AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP +1218%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Dec 2011

Polaris

Generation

Northern 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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

2

-

640

Shading Units

80

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

19W

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 Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Cedar

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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