AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

10

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

2

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

3

AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

4

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

5

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

6

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

7

AMD Radeon RX 6400 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

8

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

9

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

10

AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation