An Asus X99 Deluxe motherboard ($230 on Amazon for an updated version).Intel’s Core i7-5960X with a Corsair Hydro Series H100i closed-loop water cooler ($120 on Amazon).Our test systemĮven though the PowerColor RX 550 is the most entry-level of entry-level video cards released in a long while, we’re still testing it on PCWorld’s dedicated GPU benchmarking PC, which is brimming with high-level hardware to eradicate bottlenecks and show unfettered graphics performance. That’s a big deal for folks wanting more oomph from an existing PCs-likely a sizable portion of this card’s target audience. The Radeon RX 550 is powered completely via your motherboard’s PCIe slot, with no extra power cables required. (4GB models will also be available in limited numbers.) Those modest internals demand only modest amounts of power, however. It hums along at a 1,100MHz base/1,183MHz boost clock, married to 2GB of GDDR5 memory with a 128-bit bus. The Radeon RX 550’s Polaris GPU packs a mere 8 compute units and 512 stream processors, but you don’t need much horsepower to drive e-sports or home theater PCs. It’s one-quarter the GPU inside the $170 Radeon RX 570. You’ll find all the hardcore technical specs for the Radeon RX 550 in the chart below, but in sum they’re half that of the already modest $100 RX 560, which is launching in early May as the final release in AMD’s new Radeon RX 500 series. But is a graphics card this cut-down worthwhile? Yes…and no. We haven’t seen a graphics card serve the ultra-budget market in years.
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