AMD Radeon Pro 555X vs ATI Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 555X and ATI Radeon 9500 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

ATI Radeon 9500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 555X

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 4 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 907 MHz vs 275 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
9.4x more memory clock speed: 5100 MHz vs 540 MHz

Launch date	16 July 2018 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	907 MHz vs 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz vs 540 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9500

6.3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 555X
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9500

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	ATI Radeon 9500
Geekbench - OpenCL	12705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	35.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	668.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	49.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	170.952
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
PassMark - G3D Mark		36
PassMark - G2D Mark		173

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	ATI Radeon 9500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Rage 8
Code name	Polaris 21	R300
Launch date	16 July 2018	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	997	994
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	907 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	768
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	110 million
Texture fill rate		1.1 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz	540 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		17.28 GB / s