AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and AMD Radeon RX 550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Vega 7

AMD Radeon RX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

Around 61% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
9.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1262 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262 vs 127

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

Around 14% higher pipelines: 512 vs 448
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Pipelines	512 vs 448
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1262

127

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	AMD Radeon RX 550
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262	127
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 - Manhattan (Frames)		940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2158

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 7	AMD Radeon RX 550
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	GCN 4.0
Code name	Renoir	Lexa
Launch date	Q1'2020	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	1044	876
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$79
Price now		$75
Value for money (0-100)		59.51
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	448	512
Core clock speed		1100 MHz
Floating-point performance		1.2 TFLOPs
Texture fill rate		37.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Transistor count		2,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112 GB/s
Memory bus width		128 bit
Memory clock speed		7000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Length		145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		None