AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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 75W)

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1275MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X +138%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Apr 2018

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/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

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

123 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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