Radeon RX 540X vs 550

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking609not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.37no data
Power efficiency7.49no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameLexaPolaris 23
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512512
Core clock speed1100 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speed1183 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate37.8639.01
Floating-point processing power1.211 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3232

Form factor & compatibility

Information on 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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
Length145 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth56 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.76.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.31.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 11 April 2018

RX 540X has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 550 and Radeon RX 540X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 550 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 540X is a notebook one.


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