GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon 550X
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1218 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 7790
CORE STATE
Bonaire
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
85 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
550X
HD 7790
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
896
+75.0%
Shaders
512
896
+75.0%
TMUs
32
56
+75.0%
ROPs
16
16
0.0%
Compute Units
8
14
+75.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
1082 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
1024 MB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
1,024
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
96.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,247.2 GFLOPS
1.792 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
77.95 GFLOPS (1:16)
112.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
1,247.2 GFLOPS (1:1)
—
Power
TDP
50 W
85 W
TDP (W)
50
85
+70.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
250 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 2.0
GPU Name
Lexa
Bonaire
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500X)
Southern Islands
(HD 7700)
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
2,080 million
Die Size
103 mm²
160 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
21.4M / mm²
13.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.5
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
145 mm
5.7 inches
183 mm
7.2 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
149 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Polaris
Northern Islands
Successor
Vega
Sea Islands