DELL RX 550 4GB Low Profile Graphics Card - Great for upgrading OEM SFF PC 

Thank god for Phil! He helps me make my SFF PCs great!

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.

".. 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

I love this range of cards. Just bought a 570 for really cheap off ebay- runs games really well despite its age

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. 🙂

Thanks Phil. I have one in one of my spare computers. Its mostly a 720p card.

Yeah, the “hey guys” is back! Much better Phil 👍🏻

I thought Phil and the guy from ExplainingComputers are the same person. lol,, thanks for sharing

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).

🙂 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

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.

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.

Not a bad card for what it is. I have bought them for budget PCs at least 5 times since they came out.

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!

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.

Good to see low profile cards can run games very decently now.

“From October of this year.” Ha, caught the classic January mistake!

Surprisingly fast. This gave me hope as I have a RX 460 4GB on my media PC :)

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.

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.

I got one of those last week and was unable to find any video about it, pretty happy to find more about it

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just built my little brothers their first gaming pcs with optiplex 7020 sff and rx550 hopefully they like it. Fingers crossed

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

3:36 RIP Ken Block

Philday today!!!

Nice video and a good review Phil, I'd like to see Wolfenstein games return to library of games tested 👍

I hate games without graphic presets and love those with built in benchmark :D

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 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.

Bios flash it to a non oem bios if you can you may get slightly better performance and control 🙂

Very good

And such a nice Polish Game in a test set 😊

What's up Phil!

I need two of these, for business multy monitor.

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 :-)

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.

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😊

I hope they make some new cards too for low profile - idk I just think they look cool

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.

i got one of these its good

The core is Lexa rather than Polaris 21 so that it cannot be cracked to 768 sp. Otherwise it will be much more amazing.

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 .

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

Pretty much dell makes great hardware. At least workstation stuff used to be really really well built to last

That looks like an interesting GPU for Windows 7 PC.

You can overclock/underclock with a little bios modding!

Interesting card, like!

Thnx Phil - would this card work in a HP8200 Elite SFF (i7 2600, 20GB RAM)?

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.

a 900p monitor would pair very nicely with this card

I have an OEM Radeon 550 Non-RX. Have you ever seen one of these? It has a red pcb.

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

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

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.

Great little card. I wished it was cheaper though

Still weird seeing what you look like. I had no idea. Nice eyes!

is this rx 550 same peformance as gt 1030 that i have in my sff pc

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) 🙃

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!!!! 🙂

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?

Try Hitman, it has a free demo which has a benchmark level.

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

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😁😁

What's the difference between this one and the one of "MAXSUN"

Can i run it on Dell optiplex 7040 SFF with 180 watt psu?

i have a teston rx 550 but looking to upgrade to a rx 5500 or 6500xt

Hi Phil, just wondering how I would go about contacting you about a GPU?

My Dell Rx 560D only had 64bit 2GB VRAM. It only populated x8 lanes, too. Strange decision making.

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.

hello phil

I just got a MAXSUN Radeon RX 550 low profile, but found that FURMARK v1.38.1.0 burn test does not read the GPU temperature, while Windows 11 Pro Task manager and HWINFO 64 v8.05-5495 have no problem at all ???

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

I have a dell gaming opitiplex desktop i have vive pro it dont work i call THEM THEY SAID I NEED Rx 550 low graphic Card, can you help me

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

Is this card basically the same as the Yeston RX 550 card you used in video on a SFF HP a while back?

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 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.

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

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.

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.

does this card work for SONOMA in the optiplex SFF machines??? trying to find out if its polaris or baffin core.... anyone know? is it a single slot card?? does it fit in the x16 slot on the optiplex 7020 SFF? ahh shoot.. it says LEXA core :/

That's odd. The GTX 1050 does have vp9 decoding.

GTA5 was released 10 years ago. PC version in 2015....damn son

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.

Regarding a HP 8x00 Elite SFF: would such a PC have enough power for this card, as the standard PSU only delivers ~270W?

How to istall its driver

A hug from our virtual friend, Jesus bless you, thank you 🇧🇷

I love these tiny low profile gpus .…. Especially this model Rx550 and the Devine Rx6400 😱🤤🫠

who is better RX 550 4GB or RX 460 4GB ?

This or gt 1030?

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.....