AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 95% (2310MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1852%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1685%

21420

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1333%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1200%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

Radeon RX 6950 XT +919%

214

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1642%

122

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1328%

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

Radeon RX 6950 XT +900%

200

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

Radeon RX 6950 XT +125%

189

Radeon RX 550

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Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2022

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

80

512

Shading Units

5120

32

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Navi 21

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

335W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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