Radeon RX 550 512SP: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 550 512SP sales 13 October 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 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96 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 RX 550 512SP: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameBaffin
Market segmentDesktop
Release date13 October 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 550 512SP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 550 512SP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1019 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1071 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors3,000 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate34.27of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power1.097 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs32of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache128 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache512 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 550 512SP 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8
Length145 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 550 512SP: 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 550 512SP. 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 and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 550 512SP, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 550 512SP. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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NVIDIA equivalent

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