Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon R7 350X OEM

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
Radeon R7 350X OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350X OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 350X OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 350X OEM
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock1125 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon R7 350X OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550Radeon R7 350X OEM
TDP0 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    32.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better