AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and AMD Radeon R9 390X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon R9 390X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1183 MHz vs 1050 MHz
204.9x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
5.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 275 Watt
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Launch date	20 Apr 2017 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

5.5x more pipelines: 2816 vs 512
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 823 vs 457
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9417 vs 1980

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2816 vs 512
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	823 vs 457
PassMark - G3D Mark	9417 vs 1980

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

823

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1980

9417

Name	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon R9 390X
PassMark - G2D Mark	457	823
PassMark - G3D Mark	1980	9417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		683.568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4242

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon R9 390X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Lexa	Grenada
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	18 June 2015
Place in performance rating	292	290
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$429
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1050 MHz
Compute units	8	44
Core clock speed	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	2816
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	184.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	275 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		5,914 gflops
Stream Processors		2816
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches	275 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12
OpenCL	2.1	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	384 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	512 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1050 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore