AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 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

621 points
17% slightly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points
182% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz
31% slightly higher boost clock speed
900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
300% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

307th of 586
321st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon HD 6870 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 6870 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 550 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 is better than the Radeon HD 6870.

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