AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1845MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +329%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

8

-

1408

Shading Units

512

88

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Lexa

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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