Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 550 Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Radeon RX 9060 XT Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 173% (3230MHz vs 1183MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550
1211
Radeon RX 9060 XT
+2084%
26460
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
May 2025
Polaris
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1100 MHz
Base Clock
2220 MHz
1183 MHz
Boost Clock
3230 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.0GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
32
-
SM Count
48
512
Shading Units
2048
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
18.93 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.7 GPixel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.4 GTexel/s
1211 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
52.92 TFLOPS
1211 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.46 TFLOPS
75.71 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
826.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
Navi 44
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
GCN 4.0
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
4 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
Unknown
103 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
