AMD Radeon R9 A375 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 A375 and AMD Radeon RX 550X 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 A375

AMD Radeon RX 550X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 A375

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 25% higher pipelines: 640 vs 512

Launch date	2015 vs 3 April 2018
Pipelines	640 vs 512

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550X

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 39% higher boost clock speed: 1287 MHz vs 925 MHz
Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 51.48 GTexel/s vs 37.00 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
6.2x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 416 vs 232
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2292 vs 1024

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s vs 37.00 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	416 vs 232
PassMark - G3D Mark	2292 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 A375
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

416

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1024

2292

Name	AMD Radeon R9 A375	AMD Radeon RX 550X
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	416
PassMark - G3D Mark	1024	2292
Geekbench - OpenCL		9428
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3428
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3428
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3139
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 A375	AMD Radeon RX 550X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Venus	Lexa
Launch date	2015	3 April 2018
Place in performance rating	633	634
Type	Laptop	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz	1287 MHz
Compute units	10	8/10
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1184 GFLOPS
Pipelines	640	512
Pixel fill rate	14.80 GPixel/s	20.60 GP/s
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s	51.48 GTexel/s
Transistor count	1500 million	2,200 million
Floating-point performance		1.65 TFLOPs
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		512/640
Texture Units		40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length		145 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	12
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support