AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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AMD Radeon RX 560 AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP 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 19% (1275MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +90%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2018

Polaris

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Baffin

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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