Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1206MHz vs 1183MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
+307%
4940
Radeon RX 550X
1211
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Dec 2018
Arctic Islands
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
8
2048
Shading Units
512
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Lexa
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
