AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 GME and AMD Radeon HD 6550A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 550 MHz
12737.2x more texture fill rate: 198.7 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1600 MHz
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 679 vs 609
12x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8527 vs 708

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 Mar 2020 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective) vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	679 vs 609
PassMark - G3D Mark	8527 vs 708

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

5x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 175 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

679

609

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8527

708

Name	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G2D Mark	679	609
PassMark - G3D Mark	8527	708
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	6839
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	20161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	20161
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1001

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 590 GME	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Polaris 20	Pinewood
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date	9 Mar 2020	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	227	224
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1380 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.359 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate	44.16 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	198.7 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	5700 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Pipelines		480
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (8 Gbps effective)	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support