AMD Radeon RX 550X vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 11, 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

658 points

41% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

11 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

13 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

12376 points

0.02% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12402 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

13344 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points

16804 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

266% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1287 MHz

1400 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

20.6 Gigapixels/s

83% significantly higher pixel rate

11.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

61.6 Gigatexels/s

19% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

704

37% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% slightly 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

335th of 586

298th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2019 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

4.6

Radeon RX 550X vs Radeon Vega 11 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon Vega 11 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 550X in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 550X 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 11 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550X 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon Vega 11 is faster than the Radeon RX 550X.