Radeon RX 470 and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon HD 5550
Radeon RX 470
8339
Radeon HD 5550
387
Radeon RX 470
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
-
Core clock speed
926 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
8.800
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
FreeSync
+
-