Radeon R9 290 and Radeon X550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon X550
Radeon R9 290
8336
Radeon X550
52
Radeon R9 290
Radeon X550
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
Hawaii
RV370
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
July 2005
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
107 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
-
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
151.5
1.600
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
6.3
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A