GPU-Z 2.51.0: Mixed up CPU code name for Radeon RX550

[kukris]

Hello together,

I have the graphic card ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX550 and with GPU-Z 2.51.0 (and the versions before) it displays the GPU code name Polaris 21 instead of Polaris 12 (see attached screenshot).
I compared it to Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer 1.55.0.0 and with Wikipedia (see link below).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_500_series

Can you please correct this?


Greetings
Kukris

 

[W1zzard]

Could you upload your VBIOS and post the link here?

 

[regorwin56]

Hello together,

I have the graphic card ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX550 and with GPU-Z 2.51.0 (and the versions before) it displays the GPU code name Polaris 21 instead of Polaris 12 (see attached screenshot).
I compared it to Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer 1.55.0.0 and with Wikipedia (see link below).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_500_series

Greetings
Kukris

Is this your graphics card?
There are two versions of the RX 550
1.Lexa Polaris12 512sp
2.Baffin Polaris 21 640sp


I guess it is possible that you bought the 640sp version of RX 550
I saw that the GPU Caps Viewer identified it as 640sp, so I was guessing, but it may be a true GPUZ detection error.

Sapphire PULSE RX 550 640SP 4 GB Specs

AMD Baffin, 1071 MHz, 640 Cores, 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1500 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

My RX550

Hello together,

I have the graphic card ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX550 and with GPU-Z 2.51.0 (and the versions before) it displays the GPU code name Polaris 21 instead of Polaris 12 (see attached screenshot).
I compared it to Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer 1.55.0.0 and with Wikipedia (see link below).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_500_series

Can you please correct this?


Greetings
Kukris

I was wondering what page he would show you if you press lookup

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Hello together,

I have the graphic card ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX550 and with GPU-Z 2.51.0 (and the versions before) it displays the GPU code name Polaris 21 instead of Polaris 12 (see attached screenshot).
I compared it to Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer 1.55.0.0 and with Wikipedia (see link below).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_500_series

Can you please correct this?


Greetings
Kukris

Your model is Baffin (Polaris 21) there are others but this one is correct in gpuz

PCI Devices

 

[regorwin56]

ASRock RX 550 VBIOS

2048 MB GDDR5, 1183 MHz GPU, 1500 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

 

[T4C Fantasy]

ASRock RX 550 VBIOS

2048 MB GDDR5, 1183 MHz GPU, 1500 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

i believe this one is the 512SP baffin, which im going to add to gpudb now

 

[kukris]

Here is my VBIOS. When I try to upload it I get this error message "BIOS reading not supported on this device."

The graphic is the 2GB variant not the 4 GB. The card looks like this:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asrock-phantom-gaming-rx-550.b9914

Greetings
Kukris

 

[W1zzard]

Thanks! The VBIOS calls this GPU "Baffin LE"

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Thanks! The VBIOS calls this GPU "Baffin LE"

Yeah its Polaris 11

 

[regorwin56]

Thanks! The VBIOS calls this GPU "Baffin LE"

There is a problem that his GPUZ lookup opens the 512sp page instead of 640sp

I don't know if it is a lookup error or a GPUZ detection eerie 640sp

ASRock Phantom Gaming RX 550 Specs

AMD Baffin, 1183 MHz, 512 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 2048 MB GDDR5, 1500 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

[W1zzard]

@T4C Fantasy

I think we need to add his ASRock card to https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-550-640sp.c3083

 

[kukris]

Meanwhile I tried the program HWiNFO64 v7.32-4900 and it displays Polaris 11/Baffin LE.

So it seems that both programs GPU-Z (Polaris 21) and Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer (Polaris 12) are displaying the wrong codename and HWiNFO64 (Polaris 11) the correct one.


Greetings
Kukris

 

[Nike_486DX]

Hello together,

I have the graphic card ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX550 and with GPU-Z 2.51.0 (and the versions before) it displays the GPU code name Polaris 21 instead of Polaris 12 (see attached screenshot).
I compared it to Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer 1.55.0.0 and with Wikipedia (see link below).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_500_series

Can you please correct this?


Greetings
Kukris

its easy to see that its not a normal 550, because 40 tmus instead of 32

 

[regorwin56]

Meanwhile I tried the program HWiNFO64 v7.32-4900 and it displays Polaris 11/Baffin LE.

So it seems that both programs GPU-Z (Polaris 21) and Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer (Polaris 12) are displaying the wrong codename and HWiNFO64 (Polaris 11) the correct one.


Greetings
Kukris

Ask GPU Z to change Polaris 21 to Baffin(?

However, I have seen a lot of nuclear opening tutorials saying that Polaris 21 RX550

 

[Naki]

Baffin is just one of the variants of Polaris.
I think GPU-Z shows the larger of the 2, in this case - Polaris.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

The issue is amd screwed up since gcn device ids, baffin/Polaris 11/Polaris 21 are the samething, it will be all read differently depending on how far the programmer went into details, the gpudb is the most accurate

 

[Naki]

Ideally, there should be TWO labels/boxes for this - one for larger generation/GPU type - in this case, Polaris XX (where XX is the Polaris 12/21/etc numbers) - and one for the lesser, exact variant, in this case Baffin/Baffin LE/etc. This will clearly avoid much of the current ambiguity.

But I know GPU-Z did not take that approach, and has just ONE box to show with this info.
Maybe a tooltip could work?

 

[regorwin56]

Ideally, there should be TWO labels/boxes for this - one for larger generation/GPU type - in this case, Polaris XX (where XX is the Polaris 12/21/etc numbers) - and one for the lesser, exact variant, in this case Baffin/Baffin LE/etc. This will clearly avoid much of the current ambiguity.

But I know GPU-Z did not take that approach, and has just ONE box to show with this info.
Maybe a tooltip could work?

Have you mentioned a similar idea before? GPUZ on the AMD/NVIDIA GPU part

 

[Naki]

Yes, I have.
But I was obviously told there is room for only 1 such line/box, not 2 of them.
GPU-Z has a fairly small window that came from times of 800x600, 1024x768 resolutions, so a lot can fit, but not everything.

On the other hand, @W1zzard has told us previously that a radically new, reworked GUI version of GPU-Z is being considered at some point in the future.
So, maybe something for that one.

 

[regorwin56]

Yes, I have.
But I was obviously told there is room for only 1 such line/box, not 2 of them.
GPU-Z has a fairly small window that came from times of 800x600, 1024x768 resolutions, so a lot can fit, but not everything.

On the other hand, @W1zzard has told us previously that a radically new, reworked GUI version of GPU-Z is being considered at some point in the future.
So, maybe something for that one.

I have an idea. How about moving this part to GPU Z Advanced?

@W1zzard is there a way

The original ones are not modified, and additionally added in the GPU Z advanced

Yes, I have.
But I was obviously told there is room for only 1 such line/box, not 2 of them.
GPU-Z has a fairly small window that came from times of 800x600, 1024x768 resolutions, so a lot can fit, but not everything.

On the other hand, @W1zzard has told us previously that a radically new, reworked GUI version of GPU-Z is being considered at some point in the future.
So, maybe something for that one.

I think it's a good idea and wonder if it could be implemented differently in the current GPUZ

 

[regorwin56]

Add in the General column of GPUZ

 

[Naki]

Add in the General column of GPUZ

Sounds good!
I support this idea.

 

[regorwin56]

@W1zzard what do you think