AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1560MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +493%

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

Radeon RX 5600 XT +541%

7697

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

Radeon RX 5600 XT +416%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

Radeon RX 5600 XT +433%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

Radeon RX 5600 XT +371%

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

Radeon RX 5600 XT +571%

47

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

Radeon RX 5600 XT +557%

92

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

Radeon RX 5600 XT +525%

125

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

Radeon RX 5600 XT +102%

170

Radeon RX 550

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2020

Polaris

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

36

-

512

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 10

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

251 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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