AMD Radeon RX 550X vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1600MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520 +508%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon Pro V520

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Dec 2020

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

36

512

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 12

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 12

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

103 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

50W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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