AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile vs ATI Radeon X1550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile and ATI Radeon X1550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 14.7x more texture fill rate: 35.2 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 27 Watt
  • Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 388 vs 253
  • 22.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1501 vs 67
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 November 2017 vs 1 January 2007
Texture fill rate 35.2 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 27 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 388 vs 253
PassMark - G3D Mark 1501 vs 67

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1550

  • 2x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1550

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
388
253
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1501
67
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile ATI Radeon X1550
PassMark - G2D Mark 388 253
PassMark - G3D Mark 1501 67
Geekbench - OpenCL 8941
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3157
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 Mobile ATI Radeon X1550

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 R500
Code name Vega RV515
Launch date 24 November 2017 1 January 2007
Place in performance rating 669 668
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,126 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 512
Texture fill rate 35.2 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 27 Watt
Transistor count 4,500 million 107 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR4 DDR2

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API support

DirectX 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0