AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) and AMD Radeon HD 7550M 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 - 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.2x more boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 550 MHz
5.6x more texture fill rate: 67.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
2.2x more pipelines: 896 vs 400
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
3.9x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
8.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4102 vs 465
Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 577 vs 403
3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17594 vs 5371

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 August 2016 vs 7 January 2012
Core clock speed	1090 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	896 vs 400
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4102 vs 465
PassMark - G2D Mark	577 vs 403
Geekbench - OpenCL	17594 vs 5371

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

218.2x better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
5x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 70 Watt

Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 70 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4102

465

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

577

403

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17594

5371

Name	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
PassMark - G3D Mark	4102	465
PassMark - G2D Mark	577	403
Geekbench - OpenCL	17594	5371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	970.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	76.881
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	237.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	115.4
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1730

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Baffin	Thames
Design	Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	8 August 2016	7 January 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$86
Place in performance rating	561	564
Price now	$179.50
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	33.86
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	550 MHz
Compute units	14
Core clock speed	1090 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2.2 TFLOPs	480.0 gflops
GPU Power	35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	896	400
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore