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.

 

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 12707
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 999 996
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