AMD Radeon RX 550 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs Intel Iris Xe MAX, 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

621 points

742 points

19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

20 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

17398 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15155 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

14058 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

17892 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

266% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

1650 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

64% significantly higher memory bandwidth

68.26 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

25 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

39.6 Gigapixels/s

109% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

79.2 Gigatexels/s

109% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

768

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 586

286th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 550 vs Iris Xe MAX benchmarks

For gaming, the Iris Xe MAX graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 550 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Iris Xe MAX has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Xe MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Xe MAX over the Radeon RX 550.