AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1275MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +109%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2019

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

8

-

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Lexa

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

103 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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