AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +732%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

6

-

1408

Shading Units

480

88

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

110W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Turks

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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