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Release date: Q2 2017.

  

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Real World Speed
Performance profile from 265,278 user samples
79,894 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 16% AMD(1002 0B04) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 12% AMD(1002 0B04) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 12% Great: 16%
SPEED RANK: 252nd / 713
185,384 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 15% MSI(1462 8C98) 2GB
Worst Bench: 11% MSI(1462 8C98) 2GB
Poor: 11% Great: 15%
SPEED RANK: 260th / 713
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed
14.1 % +4% 13.6 %
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
15.5 fps 17.1 fps Better lighting effects.
+10%
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
25.7 fps Much better reflection handling.
+57%
16.4 fps
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)
23.2 fps Much faster multi rendering.
+73%
13.4 fps
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)
16.5 fps 18.2 fps Faster NBody calculation.
+10%
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
17.7 fps 18.6 fps Slightly better peak lighting effects.
+5%
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
28.2 fps Much better peak reflection handling.
+32%
21.4 fps
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere)
26.5 fps Much faster peak multi rendering.
+66%
16 fps
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy)
18.8 fps 19.5 fps +4%
CSGO
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
108 Fps Better CSGO Fps.
+24%
87 Fps
LoL
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
103 Fps +0% 102 Fps
Market Share
Based on 68,664,767 GPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.23 % 0.46 % Hugely higher market share.
+100%
User Rating
UBM User Rating
56 % 59 % Slightly more popular.
+5%
Age
Newest
90 Months 89+ Months +1%
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
24.2 fps Better peak texture detail.
+23%
19.7 fps
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
25.7 fps Much faster peak complex splatting.
+47%
17.5 fps
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
21.4 fps Better texture detail.
+25%
17.1 fps
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
22.3 fps Much faster complex splatting.
+41%
15.8 fps

Hot on the heels of the release of the Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 launched earlier this week, AMD have released a new Polaris 12 GPU, the Radeon RX 550. It is a sub-$100 entry level GPU, targeted at those who want an inexpensive, low profile, low power and low performance component for mini desktop PCs or a minor upgrade on integrated GPUs. It has just 8 compute units, a boost clock of 1183 MHz and comes with either 2 or 4 Gb of GDDR5 memory capable of delivering up to 112 GB/s bandwidth. As expected from a discrete GPU, the RX 550 wipes the floor with Intel’s current best desktop iGPU (HD 630 (Kaby Lake). The RX 550 is expected to be around 70% as fast as the only $20 dearer RX 560 (the successor to the RX 460 to be released next month), however this should be sufficient for an okay gaming experience for many games on non-demanding settings. It is anticipated, that AMD will tailor the form of the 550 more towards the laptop market as the year progresses. [Apr '17 GPUPro]

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Can be excellent low power discrete GPU (although you get same performance as Vega 11 iGPU on AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and you're lucky to get GDDR5 ones) or weak little ants (if you got GT 1030 with DDR4 VRAM which makes VRAM itself a bottleneck for this GPU). [Nov '19 ColdSpy]

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