AMD Radeon RX 550X vs AMD Radeon 500

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 500, 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

464 points
4% slightly better overall score
445 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8536 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9903 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6649 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
11654 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 586
345th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 550X vs Radeon 500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550X GPU is faster than the Radeon 500 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550X over the Radeon 500.

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