AMD Radeon RX 550
You’ll find single connections for the aforementioned HDMI and DisplayPorts, as well as DVI-D, which is officially eradicated from AMD’s reference lineup but damned handy for older and entry-level monitors serving this price range. Got it? Good. Let’s see how this puppy handles.
– As reviewed by PCWorld on Apr 2017
GCN 4.0 (Polaris)
Architecture
Entry-level
Product Tier
512
Shader Cores
16
ROPs
32
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
4 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
112 GB/s
Bandwidth
50 W
TDP
| GPU Snapshot | |||
| Release date: | Apr 18, 2017 | Price at Launch: | $79 |
| Type: | Desktop | Architecture: | GCN 4.0 (Polaris) |
| Generation: | RX 500 series | Product Tier: | Entry-level |
| VRAM Capacity: | 4 GB | Total Board Power: | 50 W |
| Core Configuration | |||
| Shader Cores: | 512 | TMUs: | 32 |
| ROPs: | 16 | L2 Cache: | 512 KB |
| Memory | |||
| VRAM Capacity: | 4 GB | Memory Type: | GDDR5 |
| Memory Speed: | 7 Gbps | Memory Bus: | 128-bit |
| Bandwidth: | 112 GB/s | ||
| Graphics Processing | |||
| Base Clock: | 1.1 GHz | Boost Clock: | 1.18 GHz |
| FP32 Throughput: | 1.21 TFLOPs | Ray Tracing: | No |
| Process Size: | 14nm | Process Name: | GlobalFoundries 14LPP |
| Die Size: | 101 mm² | ||
| Power & Connectivity | |||
| Total Board Power: | 50 W | Power Connectors: | None |
| Bus Interface: | PCIe 3.0 x8 | HDMI Support: | HDMI 2.0b |
| DisplayPort Support: | DP 1.4 | DSC: | No |
| Max Displays: | 3 | ||
| Media & Software Support | |||
| DirectX Support: | 12 | Shader Model: | 6.0 |
| Vulkan Version: | 1.2 | OpenGL Version: | 4.6 |
In the case of the RX 550, it's a seriously tough sell even at the $80 MSRP, let alone the $90 they are currently fetching. For just $30 more, the GTX 1050 is readily available and we recently saw that model delivering 90% more frames in Destiny 2 at 1080p, which works out to 33% more money for around 90% more performance.
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