Radeon 890M vs 550X 640SP

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	250
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	100.00
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code name	Lexa	Strix Point
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	11 April 2018 (6 years ago)	July 2024 (recently)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	1024
Core clock speed	1019 MHz	400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1071 MHz	2900 MHz
Number of transistors	2,200 million	34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	42.84	185.6
Floating-point processing power	1.371 TFLOPS	5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	40	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	IGP	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	14 nm	4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	15 Watt

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