PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2
vs
Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa) (GCN 4) and has 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Turing) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 has the Lexa PRO graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 4 architecture.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is based on the graphics chip TU116-400-A1, which comes from the Turing architecture.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 GPU Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Lexa PRO GPU Chip TU116-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 24
512 Shader 1536
16 Render Output Units 48
32 Texture Units 96
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 7.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is 12.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.500 GHz.

2 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 12.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.100 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.190 GHz Boost Clock 1.770 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is powered by connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 50 W.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 120 W.

50 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is equipped with a total of 1 Axial main fans.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus has 1 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

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

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus supports the operation of a maximum of 3 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is 7680x4320 pixels.

5120x2880 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 8 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

147 mm Length 168 mm
111 mm Height 126 mm
38 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q2/2017.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus came on the market in Q1/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

AXRX 550 2GBD5-DHV2/OC Part-no NE6166T018J9-161F
Q2/2017 Release date Q1/2019
79 $ Launch Price 279 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 12 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)

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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