A graphics card that was released 2 years ago? But why?
Taken from Tomshardware … Biostar has added a new graphics card to its arsenal, and it might make you think it’s 2017. As momomo_us on Twitter discovered, the company is releasing a new version of the several year old Radeon RX 550. You won’t find the it on any list of best graphics cards these days, but Biostar’s Radeon RX 550 (VA5505RG41) may be a feasible option for those who don’t need high-end graphics.
The Radeon RX 550 from Biostar leverages Lexa Pro silicon, so it’s the variant with 512 shading units instead of the Baffin LE-powered Radeon RX 550 that has 640 shading units. The graphics card has a 1,100 MHz base clock and a 1,183 MHz boost clock, allowing it to deliver an FP32 performance of around 1.2 TFLOPs. However, the Radeon RX 550 is slightly slower than the Vega graphics engine found in the Radeon 5 5600G (Zen 3) APU.
The Radeon RX 550 won’t offer you a pleasant gaming performance unless you game at 720p (1280 x 720) resolution with the eye candy toned way down. However, the graphics card’s 4GB of GDDR5 memory does help with other everyday tasks. In addition, the Radeon RX 550 provides four HDMI outputs with 4K support and can manage up to four displays simultaneously.
Source: Tomshardware
