ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
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MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU)

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has 640 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.07 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.37 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.28 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.26 TFLOPS.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 10 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has a turbo clock of 1.071 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) is 1.284 GHz.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 80 °C.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB was released in Q4/2017.

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 4G (32 CU) published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.