AMD Radeon RX 460 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

Compare AMD Radeon RX 460 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 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

816 points

75% significantly better overall score

464 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21824 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12373 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20340 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

13079 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18277 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11245 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

24052 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12485 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1090 MHz

1100 MHz

0.92% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

1287 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

112 GB/s

Identical

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.2 Gigapixels/s

20.6 Gigapixels/s

7% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.2 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

51.48 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

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

277th of 586

335th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2018 March

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

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon RX 550X specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 460 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550X in our tests.

The Radeon RX 550X has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 550X also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 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 550X has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 460 at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 460 over the Radeon RX 550X.