Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon R7 265

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
Radeon R7 265
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 265

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 265

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 550

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon R7 265
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,800 million
Shaders640vs1024
Compute Units10vs16
Core clock1125 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon R7 265
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550Radeon R7 265
TDP0 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better