AMD Radeon RX 550 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4890 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 190W)

ATI Radeon HD 4890 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.8GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4890 +12%

1.36 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

Radeon HD 4890

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2009

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

975 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

124.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

10

512

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

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

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

272.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV790

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV790 XT (215-0758016)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

190W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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