Friday, June 12th 2020
ASUS Releases Polaris 12 Phoenix Radeon 550 Card
The Polaris architecture was debuted by AMD in the RX 400 series almost 4 years ago, since then AMD has released two new generations of graphics processors, Vega and Navi. It seems that the Polaris architecture will be living on a bit longer with the release of the ASUS Phoenix Radeon 550 2GB GPU, based on the Polaris 12 GPU.
This product may seem familiar and that's because ASUS released the Phoenix Radeon RX 550 back in 2017, the new Phoenix Radeon 550 uses a different memory configuration of 2 GB GDDR5 / 64-bit / 6 Gbps which is a significant step down from the 2/4 GB GDDR5 / 128-bit / 7 Gbps of the Phoenix Radeon RX 550 especially considering that card was released 3 years ago. This new card seems to have been available to OEM's for some time and is only now making it's way to retail at a hopefully cheap price.
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This product may seem familiar and that's because ASUS released the Phoenix Radeon RX 550 back in 2017, the new Phoenix Radeon 550 uses a different memory configuration of 2 GB GDDR5 / 64-bit / 6 Gbps which is a significant step down from the 2/4 GB GDDR5 / 128-bit / 7 Gbps of the Phoenix Radeon RX 550 especially considering that card was released 3 years ago. This new card seems to have been available to OEM's for some time and is only now making it's way to retail at a hopefully cheap price.
33 Comments on ASUS Releases Polaris 12 Phoenix Radeon 550 Card
This better work and advertise as iGPU replacement instead of letting OEM ticking the dGPU box as cheaply as possible, imagine the horror for people buying this and expect semi-decent gaming experience.
Reason for 64-bit bus is to reduce PCB size/complexity. Seems like to them it much easier to use some compatible PCB with cooler they already have and slap this 550 GPU on it.
Thanks Asus, you scumbags.
www.google.com/search?q=amd+single+slot+gpu&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJ7LCVh_zpAhWUgVwKHcLHAdMQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1536&bih=731
They could have even used the legacy design like that:
Benchmark or two:
laptopmedia.com/video-card/amd-radeon-rx-550-laptop-64-bit-2gb-gddr5/
Asus is Asus, don't expect too much from them.
As for this GPU, is it actually being released to retail, or are they for some reason just distributing a press release about a low-end OEM GPU?
It's like AMD has no time for anything besides Zen and has completely lost focus on the graphics department.
These low-power cards are perfect for blower style of cooler that could push all the warm air directly out of the case.
I am a fan of such rebrands which result in lowering the market and performance tier of the corresponding GPU.
It gave GT 1030 a fair fight it seems.
www.techspot.com/review/1488-esports-geforce-gt-1030-vs-radeon-rx-550/
514 mm^2 Navi 21 XTX 400W
Navi 21 XT 300W
Navi 21 XL 250W
340 mm^2 Navi 22 XTX 225W
Navi 22 XT 185W
Navi 22 XL 150W
240 mm^2 Navi 23 XTX 120W
Navi 23 XT 90W
Navi 23 XL 75W
Normaly AMD dont exceed 300W TBP, except some limited edition like RX Vega 64 Liquid or R9 295X2. And also 505mm2 7nm 400W card is uncoolable beside LN2. Way too much theemaldensiy for such a small area.
www.ebay.com.au/itm/Yeston-RX550-4G-D5-Graphic-Card-Video-Card-Radeon-Chill-4GB-128Bit-Memory-VGA/233506004665?_trkparms=aid%3D1110007%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.DISC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200423072919%26meid%3D339333c4828d4f1bafe31306c6eae2da%26pid%3D101110%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D2%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D124217479371%26itm%3D233506004665%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2563228%26algv%3Ddefault%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2563228.c101110.m1982
In fact it was an Asus Phoenix one and had a similar heatsink as this card here. :D