AMD Radeon Vega 9 vs ATI Radeon X550 XTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 9 and ATI Radeon X550 XTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 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 Vega 9

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 110 nm
  • Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 409 vs 240
  • 22.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1591 vs 71
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 Oct 2017 vs 24 January 2007
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 409 vs 240
PassMark - G3D Mark 1591 vs 71

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 9
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550 XTX

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
409
240
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1591
71
Name AMD Radeon Vega 9 ATI Radeon X550 XTX
PassMark - G2D Mark 409 240
PassMark - G3D Mark 1591 71
Geekbench - OpenCL 9870
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1856
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1856
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2482
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2482

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 9 ATI Radeon X550 XTX

Essentials

Architecture Vega R400
Code name Vega Raven Ridge RV410
Launch date 26 Oct 2017 24 January 2007
Place in performance rating 812 716
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 576
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt
Transistor count 4500 million 120 million
Core clock speed 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 3.2 GTexel / s

API support

DirectX 12.1 9.0b
OpenGL 2.0

Memory

Shared memory Yes
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 600 MHz
Memory type DDR

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None