ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

Shading Units

512

12

TMUs

32

12

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Lexa

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

R500

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.7

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