Sufficient Wadlbeißer: AMD Radeon RX 550 in test

The Radeon RX 550 is actually the only one of AMD's now-launched graphics cards to be truly new and runs internally as Polaris 12. It is clearly aimed at the entry-level area for less than 100 euros and thus occupies a market niche in which Nvid... Appearances, dimensions and connections The card, which is very light with 282 grams, is only 15.5 cm long, 10.5 cm high and occupies exactly two slots with a depth of 3.5 cm. You don't have to be afraid of a backplate... Introduction The field of application as practical as possible was an important reason for us in the further course of the tests to adapt the platform and CPU to the target group of an RX 550 and thus instead of the Intel Core i7 a significantly simpler Core i3 6...Dota 2 - Medium Settings First, we let Dota 2 run with mediocre settings and drag Intel's slightly tired HD530 just as much. The other three cards are more likely to feel bored and under-cooked by the CPU. Savings rolls or not? In order to complete the confusion with the 640 vs. 512 shaders, AMD meanwhile put several values for the boardpower online, where for the "slimmed-down version" even under 40 watts in gaming were circulated. This... Temperature development and clock rates Both are also indirectly linked and so we first look at the warm-up phase and the boost rates achieved. But stop! Has the manufacturer not specified a boost clock of 1203 MHz? In the verlau... Summary AMD is re-occupying the niche that seems to be too poppy or unprofitable enough for others. But why should this opportunity be missed? System builders and integrators will be pleased to have some HT...

Introduction

The field of application as practical as possible was an important reason for us to adapt the platform and CPU to the target group of an RX 550 and thus to use a much simpler Core i3 6320 instead of the Intel Core i7. Of course, we have to do without turbo and physical four cores. but it is becoming more realistic.

Battlefield 1

In this game we see that the new RX 550 is well behind the RX 460 and also the older R7 260X, as long as the CPU is not limited. Since we play in very low settings, the frame rates of the RX 550 are still quite passable.

Even the frametime gradients, variances, and our Uneveness index show no negative outliers. The HD530 of the Intel CPU alone is completely unsuitable in every way:

Civilization VI

Counter-example pleasing? Here, all three dedicated cards definitely limit the CPU, which is no surprise. Only the HD530 drags itself laboriously across the playing field and sees no trick. Actually, no matter which of the three dedicated cards you use, they all operate at a very similar level.

In detail, the disaster of the iGP HD530 becomes even clearer.

Doom

But back to GPU utilization. Doom shows the Radeon RX 550, which link of the food chain it is, even if the HD530 is the usual taillight. Although the settings have already been minimized, Doom is running at an acceptable level with the Radeon RX 550. Nevertheless, the subjective impression is not a bad one, because the frametimes still look quite good.

Now again the individual maps in detail:

Starcraft II

At Starcraft II, we use a medium-complex map that represents a compromise between GPU and CPU limitations. The frame rates are excellent and the Min-FPS show us together very clearly where the CPU limit is located. Only Intel's iGP is starving through the run and doesn't really like to play along.

For this there is also in details one on the cap:

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