AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

ATI Radeon HD 5690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 64W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP +121%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Feb 2011

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

400

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

64W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Redwood

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

104 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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