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Radeon 550X
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VRAM
2 GB
CUDA
512
FP32
1.247 TF
Bandwidth
112 GB/s
TDP
50W
Boost
1218 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 compute1.247 TFLOPS1%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s6%
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 Spy1,440pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)540pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)208spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute7,200pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming4
Ray tracing3
AI / Compute3
Creator / 3D4
Power efficiency8
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 3 fps
1080p
5
1440p
3
4K
2
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 5 fps
1080p
7
1440p
5
4K
3
Alan Wake 2avg 3 fps
1080p
4
1440p
3
4K
2
Forza Horizon 5avg 5 fps
1080p
7
1440p
5
4K
3
Baldur's Gate 3avg 4 fps
1080p
6
1440p
4
4K
3
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners like it for basic gaming and older titles without breaking the bank. The usual gripe is it struggles with modern games and only has two gigs of memory.
Pros
- Handles older games fine.
- Very low power draw.
- Runs cool and quiet.
- Cheap for basic builds.
Cons
- Too little VRAM for modern games
- Only 50W but still needs a fan
- GCN 4.0 is ancient architecture now
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 512
- TMUs
- 32
- ROPs
- 16
- L2 cache
- 512 MB
Memory
- Size
- 2 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 128-bit
- Bandwidth
- 112 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1750 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1082 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1218 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 1.247 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 1.247 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 19 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 38.98 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, 1x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2.131
Verdict
Our verdict on the 550X
A 2019 budget card with 2GB of memory, built on an older architecture that was already slow when new.
Get it if you just need a basic display output for office work or a cheap media PC and don't care about gaming at all. Skip it if you want to play any modern game or do anything beyond watching videos.
Buy it if…
- You need a cheap upgrade from integrated graphics for basic gaming.
- You want a low-power GPU for a media center or office PC.
- You only play older games and don't care about modern settings.
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