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Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon VII

Intro

The Radeon RX 550 has a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which features core speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon VII 27400 points
Radeon RX 550 3507 points
Difference: 23893 (681%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
Radeon VII 295 Watts
Difference: 245 Watts (490%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon VII is 814% faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon VII 1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 933888 (814%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (approximately 855%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon VII 336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 300800 (855%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon VII 89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 72000 (409%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 550 Radeon VII
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year April 2017 2019
Code Name Polaris 12 Vega 20 XT
Memory 2048 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1100 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 1000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 295 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 1048576 MB/sec
Texel Rate 35200 Mtexels/sec 336000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17600 Mpixels/sec 89600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 3840
Texture Mapping Units 32 240
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR5 HBM2
Bus Width 128-bit 4096-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 2200 million 13230 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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