AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3616 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +2000%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Sea Islands

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

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

6

-

4096

Shading Units

480

256

TMUs

24

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

5.200 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

60W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

Turks

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

118 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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