AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM 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 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP +123%

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

0.614 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2013

Polaris

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/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

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 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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