AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1200MHz vs 1183MHz)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 +77%

2.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

Radeon RX 460 +43%

1727

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550 +100%

6

Radeon RX 460

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

Radeon RX 460

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

Radeon RX 460 +4%

22

Radeon RX 550

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Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

Polaris

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

14

512

Shading Units

896

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Baffin

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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