AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 560DX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1090 MHz
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1287 MHz vs 1175 MHz
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 1090 MHz
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz vs 1175 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560DX

Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 65.8 GTexel / s vs 51.48 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 896 vs 640
Around 28% better floating-point performance: 2,106 gflops vs 1,647 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	65.8 GTexel / s vs 51.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	896 vs 640
Floating-point performance	2,106 gflops vs 1,647 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 560DX
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Lexa	Polaris 21
Launch date	11 April 2018	11 April 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz	1175 MHz
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1090 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,647 gflops	2,106 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	640	896
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel / s	65.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	96 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5