AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 590

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 23.79 slightly less expensive

$ 248.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

2466 points

297% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

52 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

38 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

52 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

20 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

4729 points

297% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18838 points

49268 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

52086 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

48483 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19855 points

59450 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

45746 points

270% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

55240 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1545 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

1545 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

256 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

250% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

49.54 Gigapixels/s

161% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

487% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

2304

350% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

350% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

307th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2018 November

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

Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX 590 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 590 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 550 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 590 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 590 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 590 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 590 over the Radeon RX 550.