GPUs

AMD Radeon 520 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 8CU Full Specs

320 Shaders
1.03GHz
512 Shaders
1.29GHz
1GB GDDR536GB/s
2GB GDDR5112GB/s
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659.2 GFLOPS
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1.32 TFLOPS
Form Factor
PCIe Card
Form Factor
PCIe Card
TDP
-
TDP
50W

Clock Speed
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Clock Speed
···
Peak OPS
659.2 GFLOPSFP32
Peak OPS
1.32 TFLOPSFP16
FP32
659.2 GFLOPS
FP32
1.32 TFLOPS
FP64
41.2 GFLOPS
FP64
82.37 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate
4.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
20.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.2 GTexel/s

Shaders
320 Shaders
Shaders
512 Shaders
TMUs
20 TMUs
TMUs
32 TMUs
ROPs
4 ROPs
ROPs
16 ROPs
CUs
5 CUs
CUs
8 CUs

Base Clock
-
Base Clock
1.1GHz
Boost Clock
1.03GHz
Boost Clock
1.29GHz

L2 Cache
128KB shared
L2 Cache
512KB shared

1GB GDDR5
2GB GDDR5
Memory Bus
64-bit
Memory Bus
128-bit
Memory Speed
4.5GT/s
Memory Speed
7GT/s
Memory Bandwidth
36GB/s
Memory Bandwidth
112GB/s
ECC
No
ECC
No

TDP
-
TDP
50W

Multi-Monitor
3
Multi-Monitor
3
HDCP
HDCP 1.4
HDCP
HDCP 2.2

1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
1x DVI-I Dual-Link
1x DisplayPort 1.4
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DVI-D Dual-Link

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Encoder Model
VCE 3.4
Codec
-
Codec
AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)

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Decoder Model
UVD 6.3
Codec
-
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
JPEG
VC-1
AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)

Form Factor
PCIe Card
Form Factor
PCIe Card
PCIe
1-Slots
PCIe
2-Slots
-
Height
110 mm (4.33")
Width
145 mm (5.71")
Depth
37 mm (1.46")
Cooling
Open-Air
1x Fan
Cooling
Open-Air
1x Fan

Manufacturer
Manufacturer
Chip Designer
Chip Designer
Architecture
Architecture
Family
Family
Branding
Radeon 2016 branding
Branding
Radeon 2016 branding
Codename
Hainan
Codename
Lexa
Chip Variant
Banks Pro
Chip Variant
Polaris 12 XL
Market Segment
Desktop
Market Segment
Desktop
Release Date
Apr 18, 2017
Release Date
Apr 11, 2018

Foundry
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Node
28nm
Fabrication Node
14LPP
Die Size
56mm²
Die Size
103mm²
Transistor Count
690 Million
Transistor Count
2.2 Billion
Transistor Density
12.32 MTr/mm²
Transistor Density
21.36 MTr/mm²