Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 240 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 550

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsOland ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders640vs320
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock1125 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs20

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better