AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon R5

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R5, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R5

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 45.99

$ 179.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

508% significantly better overall score

102 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4869 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5160 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5213 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5075 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

450% significantly higher core clock speed

200 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

15 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

524% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

212% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

100% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

308th of 586

502nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2017 September

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 550 vs Radeon R5 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 550 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.

In addition, the Radeon R5 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 is better than the Radeon R5.