Radeon 550: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon 550 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.34% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon 550 sales 20 April 2017 at a recommended price of $79. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 4.0 architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 56 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 646 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 4.37 | |
| Power efficiency | 7.60 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Lexa | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 20 April 2017 (8 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $79 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Radeon 550's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 550's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1100 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1183 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,200 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 37.86 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.211 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 550 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | |
| Length | 145 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 550: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 56 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 550. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon 550, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 550. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Send your test results of Radeon 550.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon 550 is GeForce GTX 460 SE, which is slower by 6% and lower by 14 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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