PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0)

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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) has 896 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.20 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.15 TFLOPS.

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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 14 execution units.

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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 Low Profile has a turbo clock of 1.071 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is 1.199 GHz.

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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) 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 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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) is 20 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 OC 4G (rev. 2.0) published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.