ATI Radeon X550 XTX vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XTX and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 4.800GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XTX

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon R300

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

4.800GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

R400

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

Shader Model

5.1

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