AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and AMD Radeon RX 5500 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 550

AMD Radeon RX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

233.2x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 150 Watt

Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 52% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 56% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1183 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 747 vs 457
4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8791 vs 1980

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 20 Apr 2017
Core clock speed	1670 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	747 vs 457
PassMark - G3D Mark	8791 vs 1980

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 5500

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

747

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1980

8791

Name	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon RX 5500
PassMark - G2D Mark	457	747
PassMark - G3D Mark	1980	8791
Geekbench - OpenCL		44473
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4813

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	AMD Radeon RX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	RDNA
Code name	Lexa
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	7 Oct 2019
Place in performance rating	292	267
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	1845 MHz
Compute units	8	22
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	1670 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)	10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS	5.2 TFLOPs
Pipelines	512
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s	59 GP/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	162.36 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	6400 million
Stream Processors		1408
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	224 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support