AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1218MHz vs 950MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +173%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Radeon Sky

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

950 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

8

-

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Lexa

Orthrus

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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