MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC
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Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5

The MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC has 512 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.20 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.23 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.88 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.

The MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC has a turbo clock of 1.203 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 is 1.340 GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC 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 NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 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 MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 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 MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 550 2GT LP OC was released in Q2/2017.

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 4G G5 published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.