Radeon RX 550 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon RX 550
2809
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon RX 550
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Lexa
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
N/A
Boost clock speed
1183 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,211 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
160
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.86
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-