Radeon RX 580 OEM vs RX 550

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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 efficiency9.71no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameLexaEllesmere
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 April 2017 (7 years ago)29 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 $229

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 cores5122304
Core clock speed1100 MHz1120 MHz
Boost clock speed1183 MHz1266 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate37.86182.3
Floating-point processing power1.211 TFLOPS5.834 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs32144

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 x16
Length145 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s256.0 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 DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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 29 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 150 Watt

RX 550 has an age advantage of 9 months, and 200% lower power consumption.

RX 580 OEM, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550 and Radeon RX 580 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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