Radeon RX 550 and R520 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 550

R520

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Ultra-Threaded SE

GPU code name

Lexa

R520

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Boost clock speed

1183 MHz

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Core clock speed

1100 MHz

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Floating-point performance

1,211 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

312 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

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Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

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Texture fill rate

37.86

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

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DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.4

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A