ATI Radeon X550 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon R300

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

-

Shading Units

2816

4

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

R400

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon X550 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

3

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100 vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

4

AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

5

AMD Radeon R7 350X OEM vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

7

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

8

ATI Radeon X550 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

9

ATI Radeon X550 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

10

ATI Radeon X550 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Related News

1

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

2

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

3

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

4

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

5

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It

6

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months

7

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

8

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

9

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

10

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD