AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM 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 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1071MHz vs 780MHz)

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

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP +128%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

6

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Oland

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

77 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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