ATI Radeon X550 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jun 2016

Radeon R300

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

-

Shading Units

2304

4

TMUs

144

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

R400

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

110 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

Shader Model

6.4

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