AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 Fury

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1183 MHz vs 1000 MHz
169x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 224.0 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
3.5x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 500 MHz

Launch date	20 Apr 2017 vs 10 July 2015
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 224.0 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 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Fury

7x more pipelines: 3584 vs 512
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 795 vs 457
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9593 vs 1980

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	3584 vs 512
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	795 vs 457
PassMark - G3D Mark	9593 vs 1980

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Fury

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

795

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1980

9593

Name	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon R9 Fury
PassMark - G2D Mark	457	795
PassMark - G3D Mark	1980	9593
Geekbench - OpenCL		53102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		140.274
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3595.432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		13.082
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		132.701
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		789.536
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4739

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Lexa	Fiji
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	10 July 2015
Place in performance rating	292	289
Design		AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$549
Price now		$399.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		35.98
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1000 MHz
Compute units	8	56
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	3584
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	224.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	275 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	8,900 million
Floating-point performance		7,168 gflops
Stream Processors		3584
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x 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
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 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	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	4096 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)