AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP

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AMD Radeon 550X AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1218MHz vs 1200MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 1024SP +97%

2.458 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon RX 460 1024SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2017

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

16

512

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.80 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.458 TFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.458 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Baffin

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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