Ultra budget: Is a RX 550 a good addition to a 200GE?

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I built a budget PC based around the G4560 killer 200GE with a A320 board, 2x4GB RAM and a 240GB SSD for 260€. I'm only playing Blizzard titles and a little CS:GO on this rig. It's a tad too weak. I want to push the games from the lowest to medium/high settings at 1080p. This doesn't require much. I paid 55€ for the APU and the 2200G is ~100€ atm for comparisons sake. A RX 550 2GB with GDDR5 costs 100€ so total of 155€ which is 55% more than a 2200G but according to (https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-Vega-8-Ryzen-iGPU-vs-AMD-RX-550/m441833vs3925) it's 61% faster. A RX 560 4GB is 140€ atm which would be worth it given it's faster but I want to spend as little as possible. Of course there's NVIDIA too but I got a Freesync monitor.

Do you think it's a good combo for E-Sports titles at 1080p?
 
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i have an rx 550 2gb in my home theater PC. i've got only a little experience with gaming with it but i'll tell you how it did for me.

playing Rocket League, it had no problem on max settings at 1080p with split screen multiplayer. in single player it handled 4k just fine at max settings. it couldn't keep up 4k split screen though. it also handled Portal 2 on max settings at 4k and i've played some Overload (essentially a successor to the Descent games) with max settings at 1080p.

addition: when playing these games it was paired with a Celeron g3930 dual core with 4 GB of DDR4 ram.

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i have an rx 550 2gb in my home theater PC. i've got only a little experience with gaming with it but i'll tell you how it did for me.

playing Rocket League, it had no problem on max settings at 1080p with split screen multiplayer. in single player it handled 4k just fine at max settings. it couldn't keep up 4k split screen though. it also handled Portal 2 on max settings at 4k and i've played some Overload (essentially a successor to the Descent games) with max settings at 1080p.

addition: when playing these games it was paired with a Celeron g3930 dual core with 4 GB of DDR4 ram.
 
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