AMD Radeon RX 550X vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM 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 110W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +329%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Oct 2019

Polaris

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

22

-

512

Shading Units

1408

32

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

110W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 14

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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