GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 550
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1183 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX Vega M GL
CORE STATE
Polaris 22
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1011 MHz
TDP
65 W
BUS WIDTH
1024 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 550
RX Vega M GL
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
1,280
+150.0%
Shaders
512
1,280
+150.0%
TMUs
32
80
+150.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
8
20
+150.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
1100 MHz
931 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1011 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
700 MHz
1400 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
128 bit
1024 bit
Bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
32.35 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
80.88 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,211.4 GFLOPS
2.588 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
161.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
1,211.4 GFLOPS (1:1)
2.588 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
50 W
65 W
TDP (W)
50
65
+30.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
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Power Connectors
None
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Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Lexa
Polaris 22
Generation
Polaris
(RX 500)
Vega
(Vega M)
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2,200 million
5,000 million
Die Size
103 mm²
208 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Density
21.4M / mm²
24.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
145 mm
5.7 inches
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
IGP
Other
Launch Price
79 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Arctic Islands
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Successor
Vega
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