Radeon R7 250E and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 250E
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
800 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
819.2 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
320
Power consumption (TDP)
55 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.60
8.800
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A