MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G
vs
XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G and the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT and has 2560 texture shaders and 40 execution units.

XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa), which has 512 shaders and 8 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G GPU XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa)
Navi 22 XT GPU Chip Lexa PRO
RDNA 2 Architecture GCN 4
40 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
2560 Shader 512
64 Render Output Units 16
160 Texture Units 32
40 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 384 GB/s.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

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

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G clocks in the base with up to 2.321 GHz. The base frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is 1.100 GHz.

2.321 GHz Base Clock 1.100 GHz
2.622 GHz Boost Clock 1.203 GHz
2.51 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G is 230 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design has a TDP of 50 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

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

Cooler & Fans

The MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 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 MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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 MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is 5120x2880 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
MSI Mystic Light 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 / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G is 279 mm long, 131 mm high and 58 mm wide.

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design is 170 mm long, 121 mm high and 21 mm wide.

279 mm Length 170 mm
131 mm Height 121 mm
58 mm Width 21 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1179 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

The MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G was released in Q1/2021 at a price of 479 $ (Reference).

The XFX Radeon RX 550 4GB Slim Single Slot Design was introduced in Q4/2017 at a price of 79 $.

-- Part-no RX-550P4TFG5
Q1/2021 Release date Q4/2017
479 $ (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)

MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G
12 GB GDDR6
41 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G
12 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G
12 GB GDDR6
75 fps (avg)

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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G
12 GB GDDR6
47 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X 12G
12 GB GDDR6
85 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)

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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