AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 225.00
$ 82.02
$ 142.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points
42% slightly better overall score
436 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
10 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
11128 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10972 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10310 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
12066 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz
18% slightly higher core clock speed
925 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz
1219 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
35 W
42% much lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s
19.5 Gigapixels/s
3% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s
39.01 Gigatexels/s
3% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
Identical
512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
Identical
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

306th of 586
347th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
Radeon PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon Pro WX 2100 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 550 graphics card is better than the Radeon Pro WX 2100 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 550 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. Despite this, the Radeon Pro WX 2100 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.

In addition, the Radeon Pro WX 2100 has a much lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 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 550 over the Radeon Pro WX 2100.

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