AMD Radeon 550: specs and benchmarks

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AMD Radeon 550
Radeon 550
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  • Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
  • Core clock speed 1100 MHz
  • Max video memory 2 GB
  • Memory type GDDR5
  • Memory clock speed 7000 MHz
  • Maximum resolution
Year of release 2017
Performance 4.94

Summary

AMD started Radeon 550 sales 20 April 2017 at a recommended price of $79. This is a GCN 4.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 56 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot 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.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at

4.94%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon 550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rating534
Value for money4.46
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameLexa
Market segmentDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (5 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$79
Current price$140 (1.8x MSRP)of 49999 (A100 SXM4)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

Radeon 550's general performance parameters 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 cores512of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1100 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1183 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors2,200 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)50 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate37.86of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on Radeon 550's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8
Length145 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed7000 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth56 GB/sof 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon 550, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 550. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.


Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Radeon 550 4.94
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Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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.

Benchmark coverage: 24%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon 550 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Radeon 550's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest equivalent to Radeon 550 by NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 460 v2, which is slower by 2% and lower by 6 positions in our rating.

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Recommended processors

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