AMD Radeon RX 560D vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560D 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560D

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • Around 74% higher texture fill rate: 65.8 GTexel / s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
  • Around 75% higher pipelines: 896 vs 512
  • 1755x better floating-point performance: 2,106 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
  • 3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3705 vs 940
  • 3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3705 vs 940
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3350 vs 2158
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 2158
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 July 2017 vs 18 April 2017
Texture fill rate 65.8 GTexel / s vs 37.86 GTexel / s
Pipelines 896 vs 512
Floating-point performance 2,106 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3705 vs 940
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3705 vs 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 vs 2158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 vs 2158

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1090 MHz
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1183 MHz vs 1175 MHz
  • Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 6000 MHz
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 1090 MHz
Boost clock speed 1183 MHz vs 1175 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560D
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3705
940
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3705
940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
2158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
2158
Name AMD Radeon RX 560D AMD Radeon RX 550
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3705 940
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3705 940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 2158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 2158
PassMark - G3D Mark 2690
PassMark - G2D Mark 476
Geekbench - OpenCL 11610
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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4485
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 127

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 560D AMD Radeon RX 550

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Polaris 21 Lexa
Launch date 4 July 2017 18 April 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $99 $79
Place in performance rating 703 876
Type Desktop Desktop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Price now $75
Value for money (0-100) 59.51

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1175 MHz 1183 MHz
Core clock speed 1090 MHz 1100 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,106 gflops 1.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 896 512
Texture fill rate 65.8 GTexel / s 37.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 2,200 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Length 170 mm 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 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 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)