AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

779 points

25% slightly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

19 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

Identical

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

10 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1190 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

Identical

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1183 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

112 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

50 W

129% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

18.93 Gigapixels/s

7% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

75% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

284th of 586

306th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 550 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 260X in our tests.

Our database shows that both the Radeon R7 260X and Radeon RX 550 both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the Radeon RX 550 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 550 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 is better than the Radeon R7 260X.