AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (2310MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1796%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2022

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

80

-

512

Shading Units

5120

32

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

335W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 21

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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