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Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The Radeon RX 550 uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Difference: 100 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 114688 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot (more or less 318%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 111760 (318%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is quite a bit (more or less 204%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 35840 (204%)

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 RX 5500
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year April 2017 October 2019
Code Name Polaris 12 Navi 14 XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1100 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 35200 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17600 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 1408
Texture Mapping Units 32 88
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 2200 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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