ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 vs RX 550

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking550not rated
Place by popularity21not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.92no data
Power efficiency9.70no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameLexaM56
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 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 cores51217
Core clock speed1100 MHz450 MHz
Boost clock speed1183 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million157 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate37.861.800
Floating-point processing power1.211 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs324

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 datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 1.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz470 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s15.04 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, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.43.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 1 February 2006
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 90 nm

RX 550 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550 and Mobility Radeon X1600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 550 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon X1600 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 550
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