AMD ROG Ally Extreme vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD ROG Ally Extreme and AMD Radeon RX 550 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD ROG Ally Extreme

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 2.3x more boost clock speed: 2700 MHz vs 1183 MHz
  • 3423.1x more texture fill rate: 129.6 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 768 vs 512
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2837 vs 1199
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed 2700 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate 129.6 GTexel/s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2837 vs 1199

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

  • 4.4x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD ROG Ally Extreme
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
2837
1199
Name AMD ROG Ally Extreme AMD Radeon RX 550
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2837 1199
PassMark - G3D Mark 2729
PassMark - G2D Mark 484
Geekbench - OpenCL 11659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2158

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD ROG Ally Extreme AMD Radeon RX 550

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Phoenix Lexa
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 871 874
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $79
Price now $75
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 59.51

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2700 MHz 1183 MHz
Compute units 12
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 768 512
Pixel fill rate 86.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 129.6 GTexel/s 37.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 25390 million 2,200 million
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x USB Type-C 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 21 mm, 0.8 inches
Length 280 mm, 11 inches 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width 111 mm, 4.4 inches
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 112 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective 7000 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)