AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 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 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 60W)

Score

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

RV516

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

UMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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