AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +3624%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Feb 2010

Radeon Pro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

4

-

4096

Shading Units

320

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

39W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Redwood

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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