AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 475W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1720MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II +1063%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

Radeon Pro Vega II

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2019

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1574 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

806 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

825.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

64

-

512

Shading Units

4096

32

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.1 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

475W

250 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Vega 20

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

331 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

6.7

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