Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs 550X 640SP

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	Lexa	Pitcairn
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	11 April 2018 (7 years ago)	23 November 2014 (11 years ago)

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	850 MHz
Boost clock speed	1071 MHz	975 MHz
Number of transistors	2,200 million	2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	80 Watt
Texture fill rate	42.84	62.40
Floating-point processing power	1.371 TFLOPS	1.997 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	40	64
L1 Cache	160 KB	256 KB
L2 Cache	256 KB	512 KB

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 3.0 x16
Width	IGP	no data
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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	1365 MHz
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	174.7 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	11 April 2018	23 November 2014
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	80 Watt