AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP AMD Radeon RX 5700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1725MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 +479%

7.949 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jul 2019

Polaris

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1465 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

36

640

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Navi 10

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

180W

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 6-pin + 1x 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

6.5

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