Product Compare
AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 290
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jul 2017 | Nov 2013 |
| Generation | Mobility Radeon | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1100 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1287 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 512bit |
| Bandwidth | 96.00GB/s | 320.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 10 | 40 |
| Shading Units | 640 | 2560 |
| TMUs | 40 | 160 |
| ROPs | 16 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 1024 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 20.59 GPixel/s | 60.61 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 51.48 GTexel/s | 151.5 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 1.647 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 1.647 TFLOPS | 4.849 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 103.0 GFLOPS | 606.1 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Lexa | Hawaii |
| GPU Variant | Lexa PRO(215-0904018) | Hawaii PRO(215-0852020) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | GCN 2.0 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Process Size | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.2 billion | 6.2 billion |
| Die Size | 103 mm² | 438 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 50W | 275W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.3 |