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Radeon 550
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VRAM
2 GB
CUDA
512
FP32
1.211 TF
Bandwidth
56 GB/s
TDP
50W
Boost
1183 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute1.211 TFLOPS1%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth56 GB/s3%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity2 GB6%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units5122%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency8/10014%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy1,800pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)720pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)260spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute9,600pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming5
Ray tracing4
AI / Compute4
Creator / 3D5
Power efficiency8
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 4 fps
1080p
6
1440p
4
4K
3
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 6 fps
1080p
8
1440p
6
4K
4
Alan Wake 2avg 4 fps
1080p
5
1440p
4
4K
2
Forza Horizon 5avg 6 fps
1080p
9
1440p
6
4K
4
Baldur's Gate 3avg 5 fps
1080p
7
1440p
5
4K
3
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners like that it’s a cheap, low-power card that works for basic desktop use. The usual gripe is it’s too slow for any real gaming, even at low settings.
Pros
- Plays older games just fine
- Runs cool without much noise
- Fits budget desktop builds well
- Needs no extra power cables
Cons
- Only 2GB VRAM limits modern games
- No video encoding hardware support
- Extremely slow for any AAA titles
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 512
- TMUs
- 32
- ROPs
- 16
- L2 cache
- 256 MB
Memory
- Size
- 2 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 64-bit
- Bandwidth
- 56 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1750 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1100 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1183 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 1.211 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 1.211 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 19 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 37.86 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 50W
- Suggested PSU
- 100W
- Power connectors
- None
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x8
- Length
- 145 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- Shader Model
- 6.7
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.1
- Vulkan
- 1.3
Verdict
Our verdict on the 550
An entry-level 2017 GCN 4.0 card that's only useful for basic display output, not any real gaming.
Get it if you need a dirt-cheap GPU for basic office work or light media playback on an older system. Skip it if you want to game, stream, or do any modern graphics work, as it's severely underpowered.
Buy it if…
- You need the cheapest card possible for basic office work.
- You are building a retro PC for Windows 7 era gaming.
- You want a low-power card for a secondary display setup.
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