AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1905MHz vs 1183MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+705%
9.754 TFLOPS
Radeon 550
1.211 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Apr 2017
Navi
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
56.00GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
512
160
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Lexa
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
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-
-
6.5
Shader Model
6.7
