Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX 460

Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550
Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 460

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon RX 460
GPU NamePolaris 12 (Baffin XT)vsBaffin (Baffin PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs3,000 million
Shaders640vs896
Compute Units10vs14
Core clock1125 MHzvs1090 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 550Radeon RX 460
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 550Radeon RX 460
TDP0 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better