PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3
vs
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 and the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) and has 640 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX is based on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which has 6144 shaders and 96 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 GPU PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Baffin LE GPU Chip Navi 31
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 3
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 96
640 Shader 6144
16 Render Output Units 192
40 Texture Units 384
0 Raytracing Cores 96

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 has 2 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX can access 24 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 960 GB/s.

2 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 2.500 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 20.0 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 960 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 clocks in the base with up to 1.019 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 1.900 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 1.900 GHz
1.190 GHz Boost Clock 2.565 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.40 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is 60 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a TDP of 355 W and is supplied with the required energy via 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

60 W TDP 355 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 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 PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 supports a maximum resolution of 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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
No AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is 147 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX is 338 mm long, 135 mm high and 73 mm wide.

147 mm Length 338 mm
111 mm Height 135 mm
38 mm Width 73 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 4 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 69 $.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 7900 XTX was introduced in Q4/2022 at a price of 999 $ (Reference).

AXRX 550 2GBD5-DHA/OC Part-no RX 7900 XTX 24G-E/OC
Q3/2018 Release date Q4/2022
69 $ Launch Price 999 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 5 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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