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RX550 with 1gb RAM

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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I have this in a web browsing PC, bought from the bay some time ago . Is 1gb unusual it seems most have 4gb and others have 2gb i cant see any that have ever had 1gb, i believe it was a taken from a Dell PC, i assume they just sourced there own to keep costs down
 
It's strange. Is the card really RX 550 or R5 240, for example?
Hmm, I was thinking that someone opened the card and removed some of the memory modules.


Why would Dell do this? It should be an official OEM version or something.
 
4K8KW10 said:
It's strange. Is the card really RX 550 or R5 240, for example?
Hmm, I was thinking that someone opened the card and removed some of the memory modules.



Why would Dell do this? It should be an official OEM version or something.
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yes it looks like an R5 240 but is sold as and detected as an RX550
 
Can you post a picture of the card - there definitely aren't any 1gb versions of the RX550.

More likely a driver/reporting error - what does GPU-Z show?
 
Armageus said:
Can you post a picture of the card - there definitely aren't any 1gb versions of the RX550.

More likely a driver/reporting error - what does GPU-Z show?
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System information says its 1gb CPUZ says it 4gb

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well thats it sorry i dont have anything else more exciting on a friday. its better than talking about new GPUs !!!

ahh yes i do .. Will this be able to playback 4k video from youtube?
 
Kurgen said:
well thats it sorry i dont have anything else more exciting on a friday. its better than talking about new GPUs !!!

ahh yes i do .. Will this be able to playback 4k video from youtube?
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RX 550 has same feature set as any other RX / Polaris card, so yes, should be able to.
 
Tetras said:
RX 550 has same feature set as any other RX / Polaris card, so yes, should be able to.
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Hi, No its doesnt :( , AMD cards appear not to support the VP9 codec specifically used in youtube. only Nvidia 9 series or later. it will just switch to CPU, as mine is crap it wont play
 
Kurgen said:
Hi, No its doesnt :( , AMD cards appear not to support the VP9 codec specifically used in youtube. only Nvidia 9 series or later. it will just switch to CPU, as mine is crap it wont play
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Ah, sorry, didn't realise it used VP9. According to what I read on the interweb, Polaris has some limited support in pre-17 WHQL drivers 16.7.3 and 16.9.2 (at least with Firefox). What version driver are you using?

Edit:
https://community.amd.com/t5/driver...on-of-polaris-cards-using-youtube/td-p/251552
 
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this is sort of crossing with my other thread on 4K. I have bought a Quadro P400 from mm for £40 will give that a try. I have just tried my work laptop on youtube at 4k with a quadro P2000 and its decoding with the GPU, its still possible that the poor core2quad might still bottleneck, i will post them up in the other thread when it arrives
 
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