AMD Radeon 550 vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon 550

ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 76% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 625 MHz
3786x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 10 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1450 MHz
14.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1960 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 Apr 2017 vs 24 January 2006
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 10 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1960 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 442

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	507 vs 442

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

442

507

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1960

137

Name	AMD Radeon 550	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G2D Mark	442	507
PassMark - G3D Mark	1960	137

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	R500
Code name	Lexa	R580
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	24 January 2006
Place in performance rating	299	297
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 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
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	46.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1450 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3