AMD Radeon 550X 640SP: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon 550X 640SP sales 11 April 2018. 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. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 48 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon 550X 640SP: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	Lexa
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	11 April 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon 550X 640SP's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 550X 640SP's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1019 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1071 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	2,200 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	42.84	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point performance	1.371 gflops	of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 550X 640SP 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
Width	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 550X 640SP: 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	4 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 550X 640SP. 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 compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon 550X 640SP, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 550X 640SP. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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