Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon HD 5770

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 5770

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 5770
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders640vs800
Compute Units10vs10
Core clock1125 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon HD 5770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550Radeon HD 5770
TDP0 wattsvs108 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs13 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better