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.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 (2016−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Baffin | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 13 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 cores | 512 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 1019 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1071 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 3,000 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 34.27 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.097 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 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).
| 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 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 96 GB/s | of 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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon RX 550 512SP, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 550 512SP is GeForce GTX 470.
Similar GPUs
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