Yea if you can install full height cars there are heaps better options IMO, especially older cards that might require a better PSU but perform much better.
@@philscomputerlab I want to make easily tranportable mini pc for light gaming and net. Use of old optiplex SFF is one option, so any test of these low profile / low power cards very interests me! Otherwise I love your channel for years, great content about old stuff, lots of impotant informations! Thank you for all of it.
Wow. This card has some "oomph" to it! I was not expecting those results. Now you have me interested in building one of these! I'll check your other vids too.
Not being able to overclock the card or turn the Power limit up is a limitation of the Slim OEM Card. Regular RX 550s can be overclocked. Had an ASUS RX 550 in a Dell Optiplex, (a full size one, not the thin client model) it will still fit in them.
Happy Friday Phil! Thanks for sharing as always. I bought an RX 550 back in 2020 but unfortunately it was defective. I paid $60 back then and it seems the prices are still about the same now. I would have thought the prices would have come down by now but nope!
yes, i paid $60 last month for an rx550 2gb, the 4gb version was going for $90, they are all sold out again at my Microcenter, they have them on amazon still but a bit more money at $130 for 4GB
@@MrSamadolfo yeah too pricey for the 4GB version especially since there are slightly older and cheaper cards that outperform the RX 550. I noted that looking at the performance hierarchy on the Tech Powerup web site. You’re basically paying $30-$50 more just to have two more gigs of vram.
🙂 yay, there was a few in stock at Microcenter for $90, i picked up the cheaper 2GB version because I have a few very small used SFF oem desktops that I picked up for cheap and I needed a tiny single slot card thats small enough and short enough to fit in there, it only has space for single slot cards, so that I can do some video game testing benchmarks
One of my computers is an i5 6600 Optiplex, and I have in it a GT 1030 G5 LP. everything in it was sniped on Ebay auction for a good price. Works great.
Check in afterburner if there is an option that reads as ''Use unofficial overclocking settings'' or ''Extend official Overclocking'' (smh like that it used to read) so you can actually bypass the BIOS restrictions, albeit I don't know if it works on RX 4x0/5x0 series cards. Might be worth a try tho. And yes, most OEM cards will be locked to try and make us not to try to overclock them, jokes on them, as we will attempt to anyway, and in most cases still overclock them, albeit with extra steps.
Prices for it have been all over the place (especially for the 4gb variant) but the Quadro T400 is another interesting LP card. It's more recent and sips power (about 30w under load).
These low profile with gddr5 ram are absolutely interesting, I had a gtx1050ti on my Old Dell system and it rules a lot. I can play on fullhd without issues. These video card are gorgeous.
Opportunity showed up for me and I got an Asus X570 ProArt Creator. Looked around for Rx6400. Latest generation single slot I could find. Too bad I can’t do hackintosh with it. Maybe I’ll look for a cheap 500 series GPU. Thanks for the video.
I have several of a somewhat similar card the WX4100. I would say the RX550 and WX4100 are excellent options if you can get them under $50 USD. I need to do more testing with my WX4100s and I will soon.
I picked up a MSI half height RX560 4G back in 2021. No power connector but it is a dual slot dual fan cooler so may not work well in all SFF cases and it's still only 8x PCIe 3 like the RX 550. The card worked ok in my HTPC but the performance wasn't as good as I hoped for light 1080p gaming on the TV. This was to replace a GTX 750Ti 2GB as the prices for GTX 1050Ti 4GB were even worse and still are.
@@philscomputerlab Excellent are your tests, I love your work. Could you please test the Quadro K620 vs GeForce GT 1030. These cards on paper have very similar performance with the Quadro used being much cheaper. I am very curious about the result of your test. I myself am very interested in the topic of the best card considering the price performance (in these very cheap cards) and the K620 as for me seems to be the winner here.... curious about your opinion.
I recently got a saplos RX 550 for an Acer aspire z5763 and one thing that worries me is that when I was benchmarking it the card spiked to above 70 but seeing this video makes me feel a bit more comfortable.
yes thats ok, for the longest time with older cards it was understood they float around 70 to 80 under a game load, you dont really see that today with most modern day video cards because of meshed cases with alot of fans.
Polaris Bios Editor Pro can overclock an RX550. A bit of a slog to test and dial it in but you can add mhz to the core and you'll have to pay for the Pro version. Maybe flashing it with a stock non OEM RX550 bios will enable software overclocking.
Last oem amd card I got was an R7 450 2gb GDDR5 for $30 in ebay right before the gpu market went to hell. Same card is almost 2x the price now last i looked. It performs somewhere between a 2200g and 3400g. Overclocking is blocked on this card. It's bios limits it to 45w even though it's able to get 75w via pcie. Drivers also see it as an R9 380M
Other low profile single slot cards that cost roughly the same (used) - Radeon Pro WX 4100 has double the performance of rx 550 and rx 6400 more than triple in most apps and games. Quadro p600/p620/p1000 also good line of SFF cards with NVENC and cost from 50 to 100 USD. Quadro t400/t600/t1000 are even better but usually twice more expensive.
what's better - a WX 3200 or WX 4100? I understand the 3200 is newer but it has fewer compute units... but TechPowerUp rates them about the same... actually the 3200 has a slight edge (in their testing)... which is confusing to me because it only has 640 CU and the 4100 has 1024. There isn't usually THAT much difference in one generation. And does the WX 6400 support VCE or is it just the same hardware as the RX 6400 (so no)? I'm trying to find a SSLP GPU to upgrade from my GT 1030 that supports my Freesync monitor, so I'm very interested in the AMD workstation cards. Also, they're blue ;) not that I would see it 99.9% of the time. If I got one, I'd have to find a mDP->HDMI adapter that supports Freesync (or at least doesn't get in its way), as well. Or should I just go with the RX 6400, use HDMI, and forget about VCE because I already have QSV? Although OBS doesn't seem to like it... or I have it incorrectly configured... IDK.
@@SeeJayPlayGames WX 4100 chip is RX 560 and WX 3200 is RX 550X Mobile, but WX 4100 power limited to half of TPD. WX 4100 should still be at least bit faster. You can overclock both, but I would go with one that cheaper. I don't have W6400, but there is no hardware encoding mentioned on AMD site, so it must be same chip as RX 6400.
I own this same card and it overclocks fairly well considering the cooling. At first I was stuck like you unable to change settings when I happened to try an older version of the amd pro drivers and amazingly I was able to overclock! I kept trying different driver versions and no luck. only this one version would let me OC. So it is a driver setting that is locking you down. The way I get around it is to flash a custom BIOS to unlock overclocking with AMDVBFlash using a BIOS I edited with Polaris BIOS Editor. Under Power Play I had to change both the gpu and rmemory max speed from 0 to whatever I want the new limit to be. I usually set 1800 GPU and 2300 Memory for the limits. atikmdag-patcher should be run before flashing the modded bios to allow the drivers to still detect card with modded bios. It is super easy.. I can get mine running around 1375 Core 1950 memory with lots of airflow. If you have any issues let me know as I am quite willing to help in anyway.
i got that little pink low profile yeston rx 550 4gb like you had. its a bit peppier and tunes nicely, even running DLSS 2.0 in god of war. go back to that one!
I own one of these and used to use it in my HTPC movie PC… But the original heatsink sucks badly - it just can’t keep the card cool. I created a custom HSF by removing the fan and drilling holes in the aluminium part to attach a 1U server heatpipe based CPU heatsink and two 40mm fans at each end of the original heatsink. The card ran great after that :-)
I know this is maybe out of your scope but I would like to see how the card and the other low profile card you have performed in linux and comparing it with windows. Do the translation layer have a hit in perfomance when trying to run windows games in linux with this lower end card? Comparing it with old games and new games. You do need to make sure for GCN 1 and 2 card to enable experimental support on linux to allow it to use newer AMDGPU driver isntead of the older RADEON driver in linux.
This looks exactly like the Radeon Pro WX3100 and WX2100 port layout and everything pretty sure it's the same card just has a different bios flashed and colour scheme/heatsink
3:19 Phil timetraveled to october 2023 to bless us with this video 😁 Jokes aside i wonder is there a version of these rx550 and 560 cards that are x16 and what would the performance difference would be including pci-e 2.0 results .
I know the pain with small form factor pc's. I needed at small and power efficient pc. But still had enough grunt to handle the latest games and old retro games as well as som light workstation use. So I ended up paring at rtx a2000 with a 5600X for my small form factor pc. The other small gpu's available, had to little vram amd was to weak. Despite it was a but expensive, I have no regrets, it runs great.
@@ffwast if you are referring to rtx a2000. Then yes, it is a small little power house. Powerful for its size and power consumption. It's a great card, if you can live with the price. It's performance is around rtx 3050/3060 in games.
@@GTRdeamon They were a favorite of cryptocurrency miners for efficiency but it looks like they're down to around $200 on ebay now,or at least the 6gb variant is. I've been really interested in how compact they are,seen some really cool little builds. The wildest I've seen is on YT under the title "World's DENSTIEST A2000 Gaming Rig" where they power modded it,cast and machined their own copper waterblock,and brought the performance nearly up to the 3060 in a system with only 3 liters of volume.
Спасибо за обзор. Думаю, все аналоги RX 550 4gb так же производительны. Только покажите по больше массовых игр в тестах. Например world of tanks. Спасибо
I had to convince the outfit I work for that these are a better deal than the Radeon Pro WX 3200's we had been getting from Dell. The RX 550 even performs better than the recent Pro WX 3200 but the caveat is that the WX 3200 has 4 Mini DP and the RX 550s are getting more rare.
Phil, Have you got drivers from the future for this GPU??? I heard "october this year" 😃 someone jumped into a wormhole? 🤔 Video on the level as always...... Its Perfect!!!! 🙂
good review, however you mentioned that the pcie 3.0 x8 would limit performance on a pcie 2.0 system, but never showed anything on how much of an impact it could make. i personally doubt the impact would be that big since it in no way saturates a 3.0 x8 connection. you can usually toggle a setting in the bios to drop a pcie version down or two instead of having to set up an entire system, if time is a constraint it's also funny seeing other comments praising the performance of this thing, i remember a couple of years back when i got my yeston cars i was preaching about how it's effectively an easier to find low profile 4gb gtx 750 ti, and people were saying that it was no way possible lol
For better encoding performance, try installing the radeon pro drivers (the ones for the WX series) since the 550 is pretty much a WX 3100 equivalent (also the rx560 is equivalent to a wx 3200 for anyone wondering) 🙃
@@RandomBSOD Baffin is both Polaris 11 and Polaris 21, and the RX550 can be either Baffin-based or Lexa-based depending on the amount of SPs it has active.
@@JackBandicootsBunkerI am simply stating what the drivers will report because that's exactly what my setup is like. Same with Nvidia's RTXA2000 (6gb) which depending on drivers, it reports as being an RTX 3050, while the 12gb reports as a "ti". FYI... the baffin core is mostly used in mobile variants of the RX (reference is at techpowerup) 👍
See if you can find one of those GTX 950 mini cards that don't require a PCI-E power plug. Officially supported in XP by NVidia up to a certain driver version. Could be good for an XP/Win10 dual OS system.
Nvidia's option would be an OEM GTX 745 that still supports the latest drivers. Unfortunately it only has GDDR3 4GB... And it's about $20 dollars cheaper.. probably not a decent option, but I can't find anyone testing it.. Great Video!
Next upgrade for the 3020. I was debating on getting one of these for $60 shipped or just using the RX6400 I have, but the card is going to be heavily underutilized in the system. The 550 is going to lose a little, but not a lot and is going to sit closer the ceiling for the system. I'll save the 6400 for a new SFF build.
I've got piles of these in a box along with a few other OEM quadros and FX/Radeon cards... our organization doesn't like offering them to users an prefers to have everything use the built in Intel cards
@@pragavirtual Very usefull to run sff pcs on nice old "low resolution" monitors in order to have good framerates in games. You can find very nice 19" monitors @1366/768 with DVI. ~20$ used. good option to play game on a budget pc.
Another interesting piece of hardware which can't be purchased in Germany, no matter how much you're willing to pay. There is not a single RX550 4GB LowProfile on eBay for sale. Damnit.
Nice card! I hope you test the R7 260X 2GB, has similar price, remember playing games like Shadow of Tomb Raider and RE7 at 1080p near to 60fps on a FX8320E 12GB RAM Greetings!!!
@@BlueSkyYGO Ahh so it's not a low profile card... But yea, I could venture out into affordable Retro cards for regular desktops. I'd enjoy that actually. Will keep an eye out for one.
If it's anything like a RX 460, in a nutshell it's barely fast enough to play GTA V. You'd want at least a RX 480/580 to have smooth GTA V. Getting your foot in the door in GTA V, Rainbow Six Siege, probably Apex Legends isn't too bad...but it's much much better on something faster (480/580). But in a low profile system your options are limited, and you probably aren't doing anything intensive. Half-life 2 ran pretty good, but I could see the frame rate dipping a lot, it wouldn't be fun in half life 2 deathmatch online matches. I remember having a RX 460 and having to play with the fan curves and stuff it was a nightmare, and darn did that thing's fan scream.
No. The pink Yeston card is using the RX550-640 variant (based on Baffin, a.k.a. the RX460/RX560D); this card uses the RX550-512 die (Lexa). So it’s slower than the Yeston.
I paid about $34 for a used wx2100. Needed a cheap low profile card for a sleeper pc I’m building. I think the card is the workstation version of this one but 2gb vram instead of 4gb.
The WX2100 is a Workstation version of the Radeon 550, not the Radeon RX550, I know because I have the Radeon 550. Search for "PowerColor AXRX 550 2GBD5-HLEV2" for more information. There are two differences: - Only 2GB VRAM - Memory Bandwidth is halved to 64-bit Hence performance is lower than this version of the RX550.
Hi Phil, help required! I have a radeon e9173 and I think it is this gpu but with locked pixel shaders etc. any idea how to unlock it and make it the same as this?
Hello , greetings from Venezuela, I have a question, can I apply Overclock or Undervolt to my RX 640 OEM GPU? I have the most recent Adrenalyn software but the tuning option does not appear and in MSI Afterburner I cannot apply any changes. I know maybe my question is a bit "silly" but I don't have much experience on the subject of video cards. grateful😁😁
I once had the ASUS RX 550, and it only had 2GB of VRAM. I was forced to play all my games at 720p with all the graphics settings turned low. And even then, sometimes I couldn't get 60FPS. This was back in 2017. 2GB back then wasn't sufficient, and sure as hell wouldn't be now.
Weird i played over 50fps at 1080p with the R7 260X 2GB, high settings, sometimes just mid shadows, i ended RE7 and Shadow of Tomb Raider, also played Rise of Tomb Raider On a FX8320E 12GB RAM, so i imagine higher FPS on a Ryzen or Similar CPU
yeah some people just have bad eyes and slow brains lol i was born at 300 ping 30 fps boi Dial up BALL mouse. 15" Crt was an upgrade from at 14" crt.. some kids just don't know how good they have it today lol.
@@CC8771 as in the original video, I should have added that it needs to be single slot, low profile and runs only on PCIe power (75w for x16). I’ve had good luck with a T400…
@@timfountain98 RX 6400 would be the best option for you then. It's available in low profile single slot and uses 53W max. It's also got an HDMI 2.1 port which the T400 doesn't have.
i had a HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF Core i5 6500 @3,2 GHz - SSD 256 Go RAM 8 Go, 240W original psu. upgraded with 16go of ram, a gtx 1050ti 4go low profile and 500Go ssd with no problem at all with the stock psu. This graphic card is on the limit of the pci express spec of 75W ( no power cable). The rx550 draw less power than that.
You think this will be a good match for my budget build, optiplex 9020 ssf i5 4590 cpu 32gb ram 1600mhz 128gb ssd boot drive? Im building a entry level gaming setup for me and my son.
Thank god for Phil! He helps me make my SFF PCs great!
yo any updates on our aussie bro Bryan from TYC?
@@baoquoc3710 what do you mean?
".. this is low profile & that is likely why you are watching this video" OMG Phil is psychic now!! I was really watching this from this reason! :-DDD
Yea if you can install full height cars there are heaps better options IMO, especially older cards that might require a better PSU but perform much better.
@@philscomputerlab I want to make easily tranportable mini pc for light gaming and net. Use of old optiplex SFF is one option, so any test of these low profile / low power cards very interests me! Otherwise I love your channel for years, great content about old stuff, lots of impotant informations! Thank you for all of it.
Wow. This card has some "oomph" to it! I was not expecting those results. Now you have me interested in building one of these! I'll check your other vids too.
Great review, good detail, about the codecs too.
Also, I suggest you check out the low profile RX 6400!
Nice review Phil. Good to see the man behind the hands. 🙂
Yeah, the “hey guys” is back!
Much better Phil 👍🏻
I love this range of cards. Just bought a 570 for really cheap off ebay- runs games really well despite its age
“From October of this year.” Ha, caught the classic January mistake!
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Thanks Phil. I have one in one of my spare computers. Its mostly a 720p card.
Not a bad card for what it is. I have bought them for budget PCs at least 5 times since they came out.
Not being able to overclock the card or turn the Power limit up is a limitation of the Slim OEM Card. Regular RX 550s can be overclocked. Had an ASUS RX 550 in a Dell Optiplex, (a full size one, not the thin client model) it will still fit in them.
I thought Phil and the guy from ExplainingComputers are the same person. lol,, thanks for sharing
Happy Friday Phil! Thanks for sharing as always. I bought an RX 550 back in 2020 but unfortunately it was defective. I paid $60 back then and it seems the prices are still about the same now. I would have thought the prices would have come down by now but nope!
yes, i paid $60 last month for an rx550 2gb, the 4gb version was going for $90, they are all sold out again at my Microcenter, they have them on amazon still but a bit more money at $130 for 4GB
@@MrSamadolfo yeah too pricey for the 4GB version especially since there are slightly older and cheaper cards that outperform the RX 550. I noted that looking at the performance hierarchy on the Tech Powerup web site. You’re basically paying $30-$50 more just to have two more gigs of vram.
That VRAM will make a difference depending on what you are doing. @@mesterak
🙂 yay, there was a few in stock at Microcenter for $90, i picked up the cheaper 2GB version because I have a few very small used SFF oem desktops that I picked up for cheap and I needed a tiny single slot card thats small enough and short enough to fit in there, it only has space for single slot cards, so that I can do some video game testing benchmarks
Good to see low profile cards can run games very decently now.
Surprisingly fast. This gave me hope as I have a RX 460 4GB on my media PC :)
One of my computers is an i5 6600 Optiplex, and I have in it a GT 1030 G5 LP. everything in it was sniped on Ebay auction for a good price. Works great.
Check in afterburner if there is an option that reads as ''Use unofficial overclocking settings'' or ''Extend official Overclocking'' (smh like that it used to read) so you can actually bypass the BIOS restrictions, albeit I don't know if it works on RX 4x0/5x0 series cards. Might be worth a try tho.
And yes, most OEM cards will be locked to try and make us not to try to overclock them, jokes on them, as we will attempt to anyway, and in most cases still overclock them, albeit with extra steps.
I got one of those last week and was unable to find any video about it, pretty happy to find more about it
Prices for it have been all over the place (especially for the 4gb variant) but the Quadro T400 is another interesting LP card. It's more recent and sips power (about 30w under load).
These low profile with gddr5 ram are absolutely interesting, I had a gtx1050ti on my Old Dell system and it rules a lot. I can play on fullhd without issues. These video card are gorgeous.
Nice Card. Still a little Pricey but one to watch. BTW looks like you have a little Sun Tan. Winter here in northern US Thanks for the Video.
40+ here in Australia
Opportunity showed up for me and I got an Asus X570 ProArt Creator. Looked around for Rx6400. Latest generation single slot I could find. Too bad I can’t do hackintosh with it. Maybe I’ll look for a cheap 500 series GPU. Thanks for the video.
3:36 RIP Ken Block
I have several of a somewhat similar card the WX4100. I would say the RX550 and WX4100 are excellent options if you can get them under $50 USD. I need to do more testing with my WX4100s and I will soon.
I picked up a MSI half height RX560 4G back in 2021. No power connector but it is a dual slot dual fan cooler so may not work well in all SFF cases and it's still only 8x PCIe 3 like the RX 550.
The card worked ok in my HTPC but the performance wasn't as good as I hoped for light 1080p gaming on the TV.
This was to replace a GTX 750Ti 2GB as the prices for GTX 1050Ti 4GB were even worse and still are.
Wow that’s shockingly surprising. I use to see those much cheaper though. The r logo reminds me of the team rocket r logo from Pokémon lol
You might want to give the Amernime drivers a spin, I've had a bit of luck with unlocking features like BAR using Amernime on OEM cards.
Just built my little brothers their first gaming pcs with optiplex 7020 sff and rx550 hopefully they like it. Fingers crossed
Great video Phil.
I use this card in my Dell pc in full size for video editing and two games, RA2 Yuris revenge and Civ V. Both games runs fine😊
Very nice!
@@philscomputerlab Excellent are your tests, I love your work. Could you please test the Quadro K620 vs GeForce GT 1030. These cards on paper have very similar performance with the Quadro used being much cheaper. I am very curious about the result of your test. I myself am very interested in the topic of the best card considering the price performance (in these very cheap cards) and the K620 as for me seems to be the winner here.... curious about your opinion.
Philday today!!!
I recently got a saplos RX 550 for an Acer aspire z5763 and one thing that worries me is that when I was benchmarking it the card spiked to above 70 but seeing this video makes me feel a bit more comfortable.
yes thats ok, for the longest time with older cards it was understood they float around 70 to 80 under a game load, you dont really see that today with most modern day video cards because of meshed cases with alot of fans.
Polaris Bios Editor Pro can overclock an RX550. A bit of a slog to test and dial it in but you can add mhz to the core and you'll have to pay for the Pro version. Maybe flashing it with a stock non OEM RX550 bios will enable software overclocking.
Last oem amd card I got was an R7 450 2gb GDDR5 for $30 in ebay right before the gpu market went to hell. Same card is almost 2x the price now last i looked. It performs somewhere between a 2200g and 3400g.
Overclocking is blocked on this card. It's bios limits it to 45w even though it's able to get 75w via pcie. Drivers also see it as an R9 380M
Nice video and a good review Phil, I'd like to see Wolfenstein games return to library of games tested 👍
Which one? RTCW will run silky smooth...
Other low profile single slot cards that cost roughly the same (used) - Radeon Pro WX 4100 has double the performance of rx 550 and rx 6400 more than triple in most apps and games. Quadro p600/p620/p1000 also good line of SFF cards with NVENC and cost from 50 to 100 USD. Quadro t400/t600/t1000 are even better but usually twice more expensive.
what's better - a WX 3200 or WX 4100? I understand the 3200 is newer but it has fewer compute units... but TechPowerUp rates them about the same... actually the 3200 has a slight edge (in their testing)... which is confusing to me because it only has 640 CU and the 4100 has 1024. There isn't usually THAT much difference in one generation. And does the WX 6400 support VCE or is it just the same hardware as the RX 6400 (so no)?
I'm trying to find a SSLP GPU to upgrade from my GT 1030 that supports my Freesync monitor, so I'm very interested in the AMD workstation cards.
Also, they're blue ;) not that I would see it 99.9% of the time.
If I got one, I'd have to find a mDP->HDMI adapter that supports Freesync (or at least doesn't get in its way), as well. Or should I just go with the RX 6400, use HDMI, and forget about VCE because I already have QSV? Although OBS doesn't seem to like it... or I have it incorrectly configured... IDK.
@@SeeJayPlayGames WX 4100 chip is RX 560 and WX 3200 is RX 550X Mobile, but WX 4100 power limited to half of TPD. WX 4100 should still be at least bit faster. You can overclock both, but I would go with one that cheaper. I don't have W6400, but there is no hardware encoding mentioned on AMD site, so it must be same chip as RX 6400.
I use an MSI low profile 2GB version in my emulation PC along with an i5 4460 and 16gb of cheap RAM. Runs everything lovely with a nice front end
What's up Phil!
I own this same card and it overclocks fairly well considering the cooling. At first I was stuck like you unable to change settings when I happened to try an older version of the amd pro drivers and amazingly I was able to overclock! I kept trying different driver versions and no luck. only this one version would let me OC. So it is a driver setting that is locking you down. The way I get around it is to flash a custom BIOS to unlock overclocking with AMDVBFlash using a BIOS I edited with Polaris BIOS Editor. Under Power Play I had to change both the gpu and rmemory max speed from 0 to whatever I want the new limit to be. I usually set 1800 GPU and 2300 Memory for the limits. atikmdag-patcher should be run before flashing the modded bios to allow the drivers to still detect card with modded bios. It is super easy.. I can get mine running around 1375 Core 1950 memory with lots of airflow. If you have any issues let me know as I am quite willing to help in anyway.
I hate games without graphic presets and love those with built in benchmark :D
And such a nice Polish Game in a test set 😊
Very good
i got that little pink low profile yeston rx 550 4gb like you had. its a bit peppier and tunes nicely, even running DLSS 2.0 in god of war. go back to that one!
I own one of these and used to use it in my HTPC movie PC…
But the original heatsink sucks badly - it just can’t keep the card cool.
I created a custom HSF by removing the fan and drilling holes in the aluminium part to attach a 1U server heatpipe based CPU heatsink and two 40mm fans at each end of the original heatsink. The card ran great after that :-)
i got one of these its good
Thanks 550 is enough meaningful ❤️
I know this is maybe out of your scope but I would like to see how the card and the other low profile card you have performed in linux and comparing it with windows. Do the translation layer have a hit in perfomance when trying to run windows games in linux with this lower end card? Comparing it with old games and new games. You do need to make sure for GCN 1 and 2 card to enable experimental support on linux to allow it to use newer AMDGPU driver isntead of the older RADEON driver in linux.
Pretty much dell makes great hardware. At least workstation stuff used to be really really well built to last
Bios flash it to a non oem bios if you can you may get slightly better performance and control 🙂
I hope they make some new cards too for low profile - idk I just think they look cool
This looks exactly like the Radeon Pro WX3100 and WX2100 port layout and everything pretty sure it's the same card just has a different bios flashed and colour scheme/heatsink
I need two of these, for business multy monitor.
3:19 Phil timetraveled to october 2023 to bless us with this video 😁 Jokes aside i wonder is there a version of these rx550 and 560 cards that are x16 and what would the performance difference would be including pci-e 2.0 results .
Hahaha 😂😂😅
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I know the pain with small form factor pc's. I needed at small and power efficient pc. But still had enough grunt to handle the latest games and old retro games as well as som light workstation use. So I ended up paring at rtx a2000 with a 5600X for my small form factor pc. The other small gpu's available, had to little vram amd was to weak. Despite it was a but expensive, I have no regrets, it runs great.
Those things are so cool, thinking of picking one up on eBay even though I don't really need one.
@@ffwast if you are referring to rtx a2000. Then yes, it is a small little power house. Powerful for its size and power consumption. It's a great card, if you can live with the price. It's performance is around rtx 3050/3060 in games.
@@GTRdeamon They were a favorite of cryptocurrency miners for efficiency but it looks like they're down to around $200 on ebay now,or at least the 6gb variant is. I've been really interested in how compact they are,seen some really cool little builds. The wildest I've seen is on YT under the title "World's DENSTIEST A2000 Gaming Rig" where they power modded it,cast and machined their own copper waterblock,and brought the performance nearly up to the 3060 in a system with only 3 liters of volume.
a 900p monitor would pair very nicely with this card
The core is Lexa rather than Polaris 21 so that it cannot be cracked to 768 sp. Otherwise it will be much more amazing.
Спасибо за обзор. Думаю, все аналоги RX 550 4gb так же производительны. Только покажите по больше массовых игр в тестах. Например world of tanks.
Спасибо
I had to convince the outfit I work for that these are a better deal than the Radeon Pro WX 3200's we had been getting from Dell. The RX 550 even performs better than the recent Pro WX 3200 but the caveat is that the WX 3200 has 4 Mini DP and the RX 550s are getting more rare.
Interesting card, like!
Are you cheating on the Voodoo? :P
I think so too!
@@MarcoGPUtuber :))
That looks like an interesting GPU for Windows 7 PC.
You can overclock/underclock with a little bios modding!
Have you tried? Which bios would be compatible?
Phil, Have you got drivers from the future for this GPU??? I heard "october this year" 😃 someone jumped into a wormhole? 🤔
Video on the level as always...... Its Perfect!!!! 🙂
🤣😅 yea I did the video last year and it was sitting in the pipeline.
good review, however you mentioned that the pcie 3.0 x8 would limit performance on a pcie 2.0 system, but never showed anything on how much of an impact it could make.
i personally doubt the impact would be that big since it in no way saturates a 3.0 x8 connection. you can usually toggle a setting in the bios to drop a pcie version down or two instead of having to set up an entire system, if time is a constraint
it's also funny seeing other comments praising the performance of this thing, i remember a couple of years back when i got my yeston cars i was preaching about how it's effectively an easier to find low profile 4gb gtx 750 ti, and people were saying that it was no way possible lol
Good point and I shall remember for future videos to check the bandwidth issue.
I have an OEM Radeon 550 Non-RX. Have you ever seen one of these? It has a red pcb.
hello phil
Great little card. I wished it was cheaper though
Try Hitman, it has a free demo which has a benchmark level.
For better encoding performance, try installing the radeon pro drivers (the ones for the WX series) since the 550 is pretty much a WX 3100 equivalent (also the rx560 is equivalent to a wx 3200 for anyone wondering) 🙃
Quite the handy tip, are there any other radeon cards you know of where one can spoof them like that?
The RX560’s equivalent is the WX4100. The WX3200 is equivalent to the RX550-640.
@@JackBandicootsBunker
wx 3200 - Polaris
rx 560 - Polaris
wx 3100 - Lexa
rx 550 - Lexa
wx 4100 - Baffin
@@RandomBSOD Baffin is both Polaris 11 and Polaris 21, and the RX550 can be either Baffin-based or Lexa-based depending on the amount of SPs it has active.
@@JackBandicootsBunkerI am simply stating what the drivers will report because that's exactly what my setup is like. Same with Nvidia's RTXA2000 (6gb) which depending on drivers, it reports as being an RTX 3050, while the 12gb reports as a "ti". FYI... the baffin core is mostly used in mobile variants of the RX (reference is at techpowerup) 👍
Still weird seeing what you look like. I had no idea. Nice eyes!
Thnx Phil - would this card work in a HP8200 Elite SFF (i7 2600, 20GB RAM)?
A hug from our virtual friend, Jesus bless you, thank you 🇧🇷
See if you can find one of those GTX 950 mini cards that don't require a PCI-E power plug. Officially supported in XP by NVidia up to a certain driver version. Could be good for an XP/Win10 dual OS system.
Yes! I have a Gigabyte 950 that doesn't require power. It's full height though, so doesn't fit into a Small Form Factor PC.
@@philscomputerlab I have 1050s and 1050 Tis that are half height.
@@philscomputerlab It fits perfectly if you take off the metal bracket and take off the case lid. MacGyver !!!
@@MarcoGPUtuber hello, not good for windows xp
@@jeckjeck6943 Neither is the RX 550
Nvidia's option would be an OEM GTX 745 that still supports the latest drivers. Unfortunately it only has GDDR3 4GB... And it's about $20 dollars cheaper.. probably not a decent option, but I can't find anyone testing it.. Great Video!
There are old videos with that card. The RX 550 is leaps ahead of it though.
I love these tiny low profile gpus .…. Especially this model Rx550 and the Devine Rx6400 😱🤤🫠
Next upgrade for the 3020. I was debating on getting one of these for $60 shipped or just using the RX6400 I have, but the card is going to be heavily underutilized in the system. The 550 is going to lose a little, but not a lot and is going to sit closer the ceiling for the system. I'll save the 6400 for a new SFF build.
Nice!
My Dell Rx 560D only had 64bit 2GB VRAM. It only populated x8 lanes, too. Strange decision making.
I've got piles of these in a box along with a few other OEM quadros and FX/Radeon cards... our organization doesn't like offering them to users an prefers to have everything use the built in Intel cards
Nice 👍
When a graphics card could be SFF...
I knew DP to HDMI was a thing but I didn't know there was to DVI adapters
I got myself and dp to hdmi/dvi/vga adapter from china, usefull stuff.
@@pragavirtual sounds useful
@@pragavirtual Very usefull to run sff pcs on nice old "low resolution" monitors in order to have good framerates in games. You can find very nice 19" monitors @1366/768 with DVI. ~20$ used. good option to play game on a budget pc.
Hi Phil, just wondering how I would go about contacting you about a GPU?
Another interesting piece of hardware which can't be purchased in Germany, no matter how much you're willing to pay. There is not a single RX550 4GB LowProfile on eBay for sale. Damnit.
Nice card! I hope you test the R7 260X 2GB, has similar price, remember playing games like Shadow of Tomb Raider and RE7 at 1080p near to 60fps on a FX8320E 12GB RAM
Greetings!!!
I feel that card is very similar to the ones we already reviewed. Maybe different clock speeds?
@@philscomputerlab you reviewed GCN1.0 cards, 260X (Rebranded 7790) is GCN1.1 with 896SP over 1.10GHz
@@BlueSkyYGO Okie I'll look into it.
@@BlueSkyYGO Ahh so it's not a low profile card... But yea, I could venture out into affordable Retro cards for regular desktops. I'd enjoy that actually. Will keep an eye out for one.
If it's anything like a RX 460, in a nutshell it's barely fast enough to play GTA V. You'd want at least a RX 480/580 to have smooth GTA V. Getting your foot in the door in GTA V, Rainbow Six Siege, probably Apex Legends isn't too bad...but it's much much better on something faster (480/580). But in a low profile system your options are limited, and you probably aren't doing anything intensive. Half-life 2 ran pretty good, but I could see the frame rate dipping a lot, it wouldn't be fun in half life 2 deathmatch online matches. I remember having a RX 460 and having to play with the fan curves and stuff it was a nightmare, and darn did that thing's fan scream.
is this rx 550 same peformance as gt 1030 that i have in my sff pc
Is this card basically the same as the Yeston RX 550 card you used in video on a SFF HP a while back?
Basically yes. Although you may want to double check if it had 2gb or 4gb RAM
No. The pink Yeston card is using the RX550-640 variant (based on Baffin, a.k.a. the RX460/RX560D); this card uses the RX550-512 die (Lexa). So it’s slower than the Yeston.
@@JackBandicootsBunker Good to know, I have a Yeston in SFF HP I5 6th gen. Runs pretty good.
I paid about $34 for a used wx2100. Needed a cheap low profile card for a sleeper pc I’m building. I think the card is the workstation version of this one but 2gb vram instead of 4gb.
That's a good deal!
The WX2100 is a Workstation version of the Radeon 550, not the Radeon RX550, I know because I have the Radeon 550. Search for "PowerColor AXRX 550 2GBD5-HLEV2" for more information.
There are two differences:
- Only 2GB VRAM
- Memory Bandwidth is halved to 64-bit
Hence performance is lower than this version of the RX550.
I recently got the powercolor 2gb ddr5 rx 550 and not too impressed....colors also look off thinking of getting gt 1030 for my sff
GTA5 was released 10 years ago. PC version in 2015....damn son
Will a sff Lenovo m92p work in this small form factor. The Lenovo only has a 40 watts pci express slot. I believe this rx 550 needs 50 watts to run
Hi Phil, help required! I have a radeon e9173 and I think it is this gpu but with locked pixel shaders etc. any idea how to unlock it and make it the same as this?
Hello , greetings from Venezuela, I have a question, can I apply Overclock or Undervolt to my RX 640 OEM GPU? I have the most recent Adrenalyn software but the tuning option does not appear and in MSI Afterburner I cannot apply any changes. I know maybe my question is a bit "silly" but I don't have much experience on the subject of video cards.
grateful😁😁
i have a teston rx 550 but looking to upgrade to a rx 5500 or 6500xt
What's the difference between this one and the one of "MAXSUN"
I once had the ASUS RX 550, and it only had 2GB of VRAM. I was forced to play all my games at 720p with all the graphics settings turned low. And even then, sometimes I couldn't get 60FPS. This was back in 2017. 2GB back then wasn't sufficient, and sure as hell wouldn't be now.
Weird i played over 50fps at 1080p with the R7 260X 2GB, high settings, sometimes just mid shadows, i ended RE7 and Shadow of Tomb Raider, also played Rise of Tomb Raider
On a FX8320E 12GB RAM, so i imagine higher FPS on a Ryzen or Similar CPU
yeah some people just have bad eyes and slow brains lol i was born at 300 ping 30 fps boi Dial up BALL mouse. 15" Crt was an upgrade from at 14" crt.. some kids just don't know how good they have it today lol.
@@homelessEh I remember the days of the 286 with 4mb ram. lol
@@Haywood-Jablomie 4MB with 286? That cost a lot back then and was excessive, 2MB with 286 was just fine :)
@@gorjy9610 My dad owned an IBM licensed sales and repair store. We had access to overstock parts. 😉
Specs say it requires a 400 watt psu... SFFs are typically 200-260 watts.
Specs are inflated...
shame they never made LP RTX 3060s or 3050s - you have to settle for the costlier A2000 instead
well I'll be damned i have not been using Hardware Video Decoding on my older AMD GPUs (R7 250, RX550)
That's odd. The GTX 1050 does have vp9 decoding.
In your videos, it would be useful to comment on GPU support for HDR? It's a minefield trying to find vide cards that support HDR for HTPC duty.....
Cheapest for 4k HDR would probably be rx 6400/gtx 1650/arc 380.
@@CC8771 as in the original video, I should have added that it needs to be single slot, low profile and runs only on PCIe power (75w for x16). I’ve had good luck with a T400…
@@timfountain98 RX 6400 would be the best option for you then. It's available in low profile single slot and uses 53W max. It's also got an HDMI 2.1 port which the T400 doesn't have.
@@CC8771 thank you
What a bummer that card doesn't have hardware VP9 decoding unlike it's nvidia counterpart that was released in the same year, the GT 1030.
GT 1030 doesn't have hardware encoding. Haunn.
@@SeeJayPlayGames Oh yes it does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVDEC
@@CC8771 oh... you said DEcoding. Quite right. The GT 1030 lacks ENcoding. I guess I was tired when I read your comment.
Regarding a HP 8x00 Elite SFF: would such a PC have enough power for this card, as the standard PSU only delivers ~270W?
i had a HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF Core i5 6500 @3,2 GHz - SSD 256 Go RAM 8 Go, 240W original psu. upgraded with 16go of ram, a gtx 1050ti 4go low profile and 500Go ssd with no problem at all with the stock psu. This graphic card is on the limit of the pci express spec of 75W ( no power cable). The rx550 draw less power than that.
Yes!
You think this will be a good match for my budget build, optiplex 9020 ssf i5 4590 cpu 32gb ram 1600mhz 128gb ssd boot drive? Im building a entry level gaming setup for me and my son.
Yes it will work with this machine and do a decent job for entry level gaming!
@@philscomputerlab I was also looking at the Rx 6400 but it seems that everyone wants 3x the price of the rx 550.