AMD Radeon R9 Fury
vs
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the AMD Radeon R9 Fury and the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury is based on the AMD Radeon R9 FURY and has 3584 texture shaders and 56 execution units.

PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU), which has 512 shaders and 8 execution units.
AMD Radeon R9 Fury GPU PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile
AMD Radeon R9 FURY Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU)
Fiji PRO CB GPU Chip Baffin LE
Fiji Architecture GCN 4
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
3584 Shader 512
64 Render Output Units 16
224 Texture Units 32
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type HBM and achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 48 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 2 GB
HBM Memory Type GDDR5
0.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
1.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s
4096 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury clocks in the base with up to 1.000 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is 1.019 GHz.

1.000 GHz Base Clock 1.019 GHz
1.000 GHz Boost Clock 1.071 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury is 275 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile has a TDP of 50 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

275 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury has a total of 1 Axial (Radiator) fans.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Radial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the AMD Radeon R9 Fury.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
0 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v1.4a HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.2 DP Ports --
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is 5120x2880 pixels.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_0 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
No VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury is 195 mm long, 115 mm high and 39 mm wide.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is 181 mm long, 79 mm high and 20 mm wide.

195 mm Length 181 mm
115 mm Height 79 mm
39 mm Width 20 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 1 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury was released in Q2/2015 at a price of 549 $ (Reference).

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile was introduced in Q4/2017 at a price of 79 $.

-- Part-no AXRX 550 2GBD5-HLE
Q2/2015 Release date Q4/2017
549 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $
28 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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