AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 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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AMD Radeon RX 550X

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 29.31 slightly less expensive

$ 254.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

33% slightly better overall score

464 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

11 FPS

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

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12373 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

13079 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11245 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12485 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

Identical

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

1287 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

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4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

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128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

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112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

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50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

20.6 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

51.48 Gigatexels/s

35% 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

25% 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

308th of 586

336th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 550 vs Radeon RX 550X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 550 beats the Radeon RX 550X in gaming performance.

Our database shows that both the Radeon RX 550 and Radeon RX 550X both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the Radeon RX 550X 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 550 and the Radeon RX 550X have an identical TDP. 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 RX 550X.