AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and AMD Radeon RX 590 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon RX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

3.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 175 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 175 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 34% higher core clock speed: 1469 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1183 MHz
5.9x more texture fill rate: 222.48 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 789 vs 465
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9393 vs 2099

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 November 2018 vs 20 Apr 2017
Core clock speed	1469 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate	222.48 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	789 vs 465
PassMark - G3D Mark	9393 vs 2099

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

465

789

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2099

9393

Name	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon RX 590
PassMark - G2D Mark	465	789
PassMark - G3D Mark	2099	9393
Geekbench - OpenCL		45826
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4757

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon RX 590
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Lexa	Polaris 30
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	15 November 2018
Place in performance rating	277	276
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1545 MHz
Compute units	8	36
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	12 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
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s	49.54 GP/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	222.48 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	5,700 million
Floating-point performance		7.1 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches	241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support