PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB
vs
ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB and the ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU), which has 640 shaders and 10 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB GPU ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU)
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip Baffin LE
GCN 4 Architecture GCN 4
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
2304 Shader 640
32 Render Output Units 16
144 Texture Units 40
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 96 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is 1.019 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.019 GHz
1.350 GHz Boost Clock 1.071 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB is 185 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has a TDP of 60 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

185 W TDP 60 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 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 PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is 5120x2880 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12 DirectX 12
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 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 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB is 255 mm long, 143 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB is 192 mm long, 115 mm high and 39 mm wide.

255 mm Length 192 mm
143 mm Height 115 mm
38 mm Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 580 4GB was released in Q2/2017 at a price of 229 $.

The ASUS AREZ Phoenix Radeon RX 550 2GB was introduced in Q4/2017 at a price of 79 $ (Reference).

AXRX 580 4GBD5-3DHD/OC Part-no AREZ-PH-RX550-2G
Q2/2017 Release date Q4/2017
229 $ Launch Price 79 $ (Reference)
14 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

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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