Radeon RX 550X and Malta - video card comparison

Radeon RX 550X

Malta

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Lexa

Malta

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2018

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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

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

2048

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

6000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.175