ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB
vs
SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB has 512 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.21 TFLOPS.

The SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 has 768 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.32 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 3.57 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 12 execution units.
ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB GPU SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa) Based on AMD Radeon RX 6400
Lexa PRO GPU Chip Navi 24 XL
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 12
512 Shader 768
16 Render Output Units 32
32 Texture Units 48
0 Raytracing Cores 12

Memory

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 128 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB has a turbo clock of 1.183 GHz. The turbo frequency of the SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 is 2.321 GHz.

1.100 GHz Base Clock 1.923 GHz
1.183 GHz Boost Clock 2.321 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.04 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 80 °C.

The SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

50 W TDP 55 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 50 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 2
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

5120x2880 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

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.

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

Dimensions

The ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB is 43 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 is 43 mm and thus requires the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

182 mm Length 170 mm
112 mm Height 56 mm
43 mm Width 17 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 1 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 4

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB was released in Q2/2017.

The SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 published in Q2/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 6 nanometers.

RX550-4G Part-no 11315-01-20G
Q2/2017 Release date Q2/2022
79 $ (Reference) Launch Price 159 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 6 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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400
4 GB GDDR6
8 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400
4 GB GDDR6
11 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400
4 GB GDDR6
21 fps (avg)

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)

ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB
4 GB GDDR5
8 fps (avg)
SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400
4 GB GDDR6
19 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB
4 GB GDDR5
16 fps (avg)
SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400
4 GB GDDR6
36 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB ASUS Radeon RX 550 4GB
4 GB GDDR5
23 fps (avg)
SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400 SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 6400
4 GB GDDR6
48 fps (avg)

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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