AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon VII

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 AMD Radeon VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1750MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +1009%

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1202

Radeon VII +674%

9307

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

Radeon VII +633%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

Radeon VII +583%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

Radeon VII +442%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

Radeon VII +828%

65

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

Radeon VII +714%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

Radeon VII +665%

153

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

Radeon VII +61%

136

Radeon RX 550

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2019

Polaris

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

60

512

Shading Units

3840

32

TMUs

240

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

112.0 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

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

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

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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