AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1845MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +373%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Dec 2019

Polaris

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

22

-

512

Shading Units

1408

32

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Navi 14

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

123 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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