AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1287 MHz vs 1275 MHz
633.5x better floating-point performance: 1,647 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Boost clock speed	1287 MHz vs 1275 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,647 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1175 MHz vs 1100 MHz
1585.1x more texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 51.48 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Core clock speed	1175 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Texture fill rate	81.60 GTexel/s vs 51.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 640
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Name	AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1826
Geekbench - OpenCL		20572
PassMark - G2D Mark		392
PassMark - G3D Mark		3332

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Lexa	Baffin
Launch date	11 April 2018	3 April 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	503
Type	Desktop	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz	1275 MHz
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1175 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,647 gflops	2.6 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	640	1024
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel / s	81.60 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	3,000 million
Compute units		14/16
Pixel fill rate		20.40 GP/s
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		896/1024
Texture Units		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	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