AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1757MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +332%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Aug 2020

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1187 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

24

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

125W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 14

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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