AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1725MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 +479%

7.949 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700

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Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Apr 2018

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

10

2304

Shading Units

640

144

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

248.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

15.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

7.949 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

496.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Baffin

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

60W

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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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