Originally posted by coder
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XFX made passive RX460 too so they could make a passive RX550 too if they wanted.
Anyway, I have a RX 550 and it's a nice, little 50 W card for desktop effects and casual gaming
Most fanless cards even in the past were downclocked, using DDR instead of GDDR and/or were using power-saving measures (or hit thermal limits pretty soon so they started self-limiting) that makes them less performant than the same part with a full size heatsink.
So even if it's technically a 50w max TDP you can still hobble it enough to make a fanless card with it.
I don't think mine ever spins its fan down
BTW, that RX 550 has 8 CU's while their APUs have anywhere from 3 to 11! The main advantage of the RX 550 is memory bandwidth (112 GB/sec) - you won't get that in an APU, nor does the dGPU have to share its bandwidth with CPU cores.
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