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AMD · GCN 4 · 2018

Radeon RX 550X (Polaris 12) — 2 GB

Radeon RX 550X (Polaris 12) — 2 GB: 2 GB GDDR5, 50 W, 512 Stream processors. Launched April 11, 2018 at $79.

Memory
2 GB
Power
50 W
Bus width
128 bit
Memory2 GB85 of 96 in Radeon RX
Power50 W87 of 96 by higher draw in Radeon RX
Stream processors51275 of 78 in Radeon RX
Launch price$7939 of 43 in Radeon RX

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Memory

Capacity
2 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Bus width
128 bit
Bandwidth
112 GB/s

Compute

Stream processors
512
TMUs
32
ROPs
16
FP32
1,126.4 GFLOPS
FP64
70.4 GFLOPS
Pixel fill rate
17.6 GP/s
Texture fill rate
35.2 GT/s

Board

TDP
50 W
Bus interface
PCIe 3.0 ×8
Form factor
desktop
Launch MSRP
79 USD

Physical

Architecture
GCN 4
Process
14 nm (mapped from a reviewed process name)
Die size
101 mm²
Series
Radeon RX
Launch date
April 11, 2018

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Silicon, made visible

Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.

101 mm² die · 512 shadersDie area drawn to scale against the catalog maximum of 1,540 square millimeters. Each dot = 4 shaders.101 mm² die · 512 shadersEach dot = 4 shadersDashed frame = largest catalog die (1,540 mm²)

Within its series, the Radeon RX 550X (Polaris 12) ranks 43rd of 44 for FP32 throughput and 85th of 96 for memory capacity. Its 50 W TDP is within the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.

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