AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280X and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 8.9x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • 6.4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 320
  • 14.2x better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 288 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
  • 23.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6171 vs 266
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 679 vs 398
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 October 2013 vs 5 May 2010
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 320
Floating-point performance 4,096 gflops vs 288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6171 vs 266
PassMark - G2D Mark 679 vs 398

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

  • 25x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 250 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280X
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6171
266
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
679
398
Name AMD Radeon R9 280X ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v
PassMark - G3D Mark 6171 266
PassMark - G2D Mark 679 398
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 89.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1434.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 87.459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 493.57
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2351

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 280X ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Tahiti M96
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 8 October 2013 5 May 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating 394 396
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,096 gflops 288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2048 320
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel / s 14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 10 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 514 million
Core clock speed 450 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s 19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory 0 0
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)