AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 and ATI Radeon HD 5550 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 Pro Vega 20

ATI Radeon HD 5550

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
14.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5300 vs 377
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 558 vs 185

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 November 2018 vs 9 February 2010
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5300 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark	558 vs 185

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

Around 83% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 300 MHz
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 2400 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 2400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5300

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

558

185

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20	ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark	5300	377
PassMark - G2D Mark	558	185
Geekbench - OpenCL	26839
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8311
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1663
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8311
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1663
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Vega 12	Redwood
Launch date	14 November 2018	9 February 2010
Place in performance rating	472	890
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1190 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	39 Watt
Floating-point performance		352.0 gflops
Pipelines		320
Texture fill rate		8.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count		627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Memory clock speed	2400 MHz	3200 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5