Radeon E9260 PCIe vs RX 550

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking548not rated
Place by popularity22not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.92no data
Power efficiency9.86no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameLexaBaffin
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)27 September 2016 (8 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 cores512896
Core clock speed1100 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speed1183 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate37.8657.60
Floating-point processing power1.211 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3248

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).

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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s112.0 GB/s

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)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2017 27 September 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 80 Watt

RX 550 has an age advantage of 6 months, and 60% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550 and Radeon E9260 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 550 is a desktop card while Radeon E9260 PCIe is a notebook one.


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