AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

ATI Radeon X550 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon X550 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.600 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

RV410

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R400

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.12 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

156 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

-

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