AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

464x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 81.6 GTexel / s
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2096 vs 1810

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 81.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2096 vs 1810

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1175 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1275 MHz vs 1183 MHz
2x more pipelines: 1024 vs 512
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
3.4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 676 vs 464

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 April 2018 vs 20 Apr 2017
Core clock speed	1175 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1275 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 512
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	676 vs 464

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

464

676

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2096

1810

Name	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	464	676
PassMark - G3D Mark	2096	1810
Geekbench - OpenCL		18017

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Lexa	Baffin
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	11 April 2018
Place in performance rating	285	287
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1275 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	1024
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	81.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	3,000 million
Floating-point performance		2,611 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	96 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5