AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 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 112.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +705%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 XT +690%

9486

Radeon RX 550

1200

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +550%

39

Radeon RX 550

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +516%

74

Radeon RX 550

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +428%

111

Radeon RX 550

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +742%

59

Radeon RX 550

7

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +707%

113

Radeon RX 550

14

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +610%

142

Radeon RX 550

20

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT +121%

186

Radeon RX 550

84

Radeon RX 5700 XT

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Radeon RX 550

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

1605MHz

Base Clock

1100MHz

1905MHz

Boost Clock

1183MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4MB

L2 Cache

512KB

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

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

10,300 million

Transistors

2,200 million

251mm²

Die Size

103mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

50W

550W

Suggested PSU

250W

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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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