SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT
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PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT has 5376 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.45 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 52.69 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.07 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.10 TFLOPS.

GPU

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 3 architecture, which has 84 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU)
Navi 31 GPU Chip Baffin LE
RDNA 3 Architecture GCN 4
84 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
5376 Shader 512
192 Render Output Units 16
336 Texture Units 32
84 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a 20 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.500 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

20 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
20.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
800 GB/s Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT has a turbo clock of 2.450 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is 1.071 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.019 GHz
2.450 GHz Boost Clock 1.071 GHz
2.08 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 97 °C.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.

331 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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

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

Dimensions

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT is 53 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile is 53 mm and thus requires the space of 1 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

313 mm Length 181 mm
134 mm Height 79 mm
53 mm Width 20 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 1 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT was released in Q4/2022.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 Low Profile published in Q4/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

11323-02-20G Part-no AXRX 550 2GBD5-HLE
Q4/2022 Release date Q4/2017
899 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $
5 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

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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
92 fps (avg)

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)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
45 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
90 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT
20 GB GDDR6
141 fps (avg)

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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