AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1546MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 +945%

12.66 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1202

Radeon RX Vega 64 +525%

7520

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

Radeon RX Vega 64 +416%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

Radeon RX Vega 64 +416%

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

Radeon RX Vega 64 +338%

92

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

Radeon RX Vega 64 +714%

57

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

Radeon RX Vega 64 +578%

95

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

Radeon RX Vega 64 +545%

129

Radeon RX 550

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Radeon RX Vega 64

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2017

Polaris

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1247 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

64

512

Shading Units

4096

32

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Vega 10

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

295W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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