AMD resurrects the Radeon RX 550 in Japan

AMD has begun supplying Japanese AIB card partners with a good amount of Polaris 12 GPUs, allowing them to ship new Radeon RX 550s. Hermitage Akihabara colleagues reported that AMD's 2017 vintage low-end GPUs have recently returned to Japan at at least four major retailers.

Photo Credit: Expert-Oriented Recall that the RX 550 was initially launched in 2 and 4 GB variants, while the recently launched Expert-Oriented model in the land of the Rising Sun is uniquely equipped with 4GB, an amount more adequate for 2022. Expert's “RD-RX550-E4GB / LP” -Oriented measures only 167mm in length, 68mm in height and has a thickness of 16mm; thus, the product has a single slot, low profile design.

Radeon RX 580 Radeon RX 570 Radeon RX 560 Radeon RX 550 Codenamed Ellesmere XT Ellesmere Baffin Lexa Shader Unit 2304 2048 1024 512 Texture Unit 144 128 64 32 ROP 32 32 16 16 Number of transistors 5.7 billion 5.7 billion 3 billion 2.2 billion Base Clock / Boost Clock 1257 MHz / 1340 MHz 1168 MHz / 1244 MHz 1175 MHz / 1275 MHz 1100 MHz / 1183 MHz Memory Up to 8GB GDDR5 @ 8 Gb / s 256-bit Up to 8GB GDDR5 @ 7 Gb / s 256-bit Up to 4GB GDDR5 @ 7 Gb / s 128-bit Up to 4GB GDDR5 @ 7 Gb / s 128-bit TDP 185W 150W 80W 50W The key specifications of this AMD Radeon RX550 Expert-Oriented, which runs at stock frequencies, are shown in the table attached to the news. As for the video outputs, we find an HDMI and a DVI-D, while a DisplayPort is missing.

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