AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1560MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +493%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5600 XT +541%

7697

Radeon RX 550

1200

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +416%

31

Radeon RX 550

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +433%

64

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +371%

99

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +571%

47

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +557%

92

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +525%

125

Radeon RX 550

20

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +102%

170

Radeon RX 550

84

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Apr 2017

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

8

-

2304

Shading Units

512

144

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Lexa

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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