AMD Radeon RX 550X vs ATI FireGL V5600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 89W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X +530%

1.211 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

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FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Aug 2007

Polaris

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

3

512

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV630

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

89W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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