ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition
vs
XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition has 5120 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.32 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 23.65 TFLOPS.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.23 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 80 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition GPU XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa)
Navi 21 KXTX GPU Chip Lexa PRO
RDNA 2 Architecture GCN 4
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
5120 Shader 512
128 Render Output Units 16
320 Texture Units 32
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.250 GHz clocks.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
576 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition has a turbo clock of 2.324 GHz. The turbo frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition is 1.203 GHz.

1.925 GHz Base Clock 1.100 GHz
2.324 GHz Boost Clock 1.203 GHz
2.12 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.

335 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync 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
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition is 58 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition is 58 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

320 mm Length 170 mm
140 mm Height 121 mm
58 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition was released in Q2/2022.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 2GB Core Edition published in Q4/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

-- Part-no RX-550P2SFG5
Q2/2022 Release date Q4/2017
1,099 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $
7 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

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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