Radeon RX 550X vs Radeon RX 550

Radeon RX 550X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Apr 2018
Radeon RX 550X
Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 550

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550XRadeon RX 550
GPU NameLexa (Lexa PRO
(215-0904018))
vsPolaris 12 (Baffin XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size103 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors2,200 millionvsunknown
Shaders512vs640
Compute Units8vs10
Core clock1100 MHzvs1125 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550XRadeon RX 550
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550XRadeon RX 550
TDP50 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date11 Apr 2018vs1 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550X
    18.93 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550X
    37.86 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550X
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550X
    1211.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better