AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 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

909 points

46% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

24 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

16 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

20414 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

22274 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

19350 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

22280 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

931 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1011 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

1024 Bit

700% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

179.2 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

30% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

32.35 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

80.88 Gigatexels/s

113% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1280

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% 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

270th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

HBM2

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 Vega M GL comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX Vega M GL graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 550 in our tests.

In our comparison, 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. 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 RX 550 has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX Vega M GL at 65 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX Vega M GL is faster than the Radeon RX 550.