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Release date ≈ Q4 2018.

Average Bench: 18.4% (225th of 714)

Based on 49 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 67EF Model: Radeon 550
Poor: 8%Average: 18.4% Great: 24%

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Terrible average bench

The AMD Radeon 550 averaged 81.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 19.4fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 30.4fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Radeon 550 is just 16%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Radeon 550 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 28.5fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 31fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 49 samples)
Rank 22518.4%
Min Avg Max
0.03 Lighting 19.4 29.4
15.9 Reflection 28.5 34.1
9.41 Parallax 31 41.7
15.8% 26.3 fps
Min Avg Max
15.1 MRender 28.2 33.3
16.1 Gravity 25.9 34.9
18.2 Splatting 30.4 37
23.3% 28.1 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
XFX(1682 956D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1300 MHz, MLim: 1635 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.3.3
23.5% Poor
Lighting 29.2
Reflection 29.4
Parallax 38.2
24% 32.3 fps
MRender 27.6
Gravity 30.2
Splatting 27
23% 28.3 fps
Sapphire(1DA2 E348) 2GB
CLim: 1226 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 19.20
21.9% Poor
Lighting 27.6
Reflection 28.4
Parallax 35.9
22% 30.6 fps
MRender 26.5
Gravity 28.5
Splatting 22.5
21% 25.8 fps
XFX(1682 956D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1196 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.20
21.8% Poor
Lighting 26.9
Reflection 27.6
Parallax 36.1
22% 30.2 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 28.2
Splatting 25
22% 26.5 fps
XFX(1682 956D) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1196 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.20
18.4% Very poor
Lighting 21.1
Reflection 27.5
Parallax 32.4
17% 27 fps
MRender 26.4
Gravity 25.2
Splatting 24.4
21% 25.3 fps
Gigabyte(1458 230A) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1189 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.20
17.7% Very poor
Lighting 21.4
Reflection 25.8
Parallax 29.6
17% 25.6 fps
MRender 24.8
Gravity 23.1
Splatting 20
18% 22.6 fps
Sapphire(1DA2 E348) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1226 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.20
16.7% Very poor
Lighting 19.2
Reflection 27.5
Parallax 28.1
16% 24.9 fps
MRender 25.8
Gravity 21.9
Splatting 22
19% 23.2 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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XFX(1682 956D) 49% 17% ± 7%
XFX(1682 9460) 22% 20% ± 5%
Gigabyte(1458 230A) 12% 20% ± 2%
Sapphire(1DA2 E348) 10% 21% ± 3%
Apple(106B 017A) 2% 16% ± 0%
PwrHis(1787 A56D) 2% 23% ± 0%
Asus(1043 054F) 2% 17% ± 0%
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Gaming 15%
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Desktop
Desktop 68%
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Workstation
Workstation 12%
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System: Hp-pavilion NY810AV-ABA e9150t

CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples10x
Core i7 975Intel  $550Bench 72%, 3,143 samples1x
GPU
Radeon 550AMDBench 18%, 49 samples1x
SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung  $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples4x
CS900 240GBPNY  $20Bench 73%, 61,417 samples1x
MX500 250GBCrucial  $40Bench 101%, 77,177 samples1x
RAM
9GBUnknownBench 38%, 4,068 samples3x
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples3x
14GBUnknownBench 35%, 9,406 samples2x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 47% - Average Total price: $185

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