AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 290 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 72% higher core clock speed: 947 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 17.2x more texture fill rate: 151.5 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 2560 vs 320
  • 13.8x better floating-point performance: 4,849 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3200 MHz
  • 22.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8315 vs 377
  • 4.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 774 vs 185
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 November 2013 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed 947 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 151.5 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 320
Floating-point performance 4,849 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 3200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8315 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark 774 vs 185

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

  • 7.1x lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 275 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 39 Watt vs 275 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 290
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8315
377
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
774
185
Name AMD Radeon R9 290 ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark 8315 377
PassMark - G2D Mark 774 185
Geekbench - OpenCL 102277
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 89.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1366.314
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 10.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 98.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 540.645
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6300
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3684

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 290 ATI Radeon HD 5550

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Hawaii Redwood
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 5 November 2013 9 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Place in performance rating 349 899
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 947 MHz 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,849 gflops 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2560 320
Texture fill rate 151.5 GTexel / s 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 275 Watt 39 Watt
Transistor count 6,200 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 275 mm 165 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 320.0 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)