PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile
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ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile has 512 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.07 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.10 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.82 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.78 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile GPU ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Baffin LE GPU Chip Navi 24 XT
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
512 Shader 1024
16 Render Output Units 32
32 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 16

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.250GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 2.250 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 18.0 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 144 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile has a turbo clock of 1.071 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is 2.820 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 2.200 GHz
1.071 GHz Boost Clock 2.820 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.65 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 80 °C.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

50 W TDP 107 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 50 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 2
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
-- DP Ports 1x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

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

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile is 20 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is 20 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

181 mm Length 201 mm
120 mm Height 128 mm
20 mm Width 40 mm
1 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 4

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile was released in Q4/2017.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition published in Q1/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 6 nanometers.

AXRX 550 4GBD5-HLE Part-no DUAL-RX6500XT-O4G
Q4/2017 Release date Q1/2022
79 $ Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 6 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.

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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