AMD Radeon RX 550X vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1226MHz vs 1183MHz)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +262%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Mar 2019

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

28

-

512

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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