AMD Radeon RX 550 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +175%

1.211 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2007

Polaris

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

159W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

R600

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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