AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs AMD Radeon 680M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and AMD Radeon 680M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6550M

AMD Radeon 680M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 2200 MHz
Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 181.8 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 768
Around 71% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 45426 vs 26608

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Boost clock speed	2840 MHz vs 2200 MHz
Texture fill rate	181.8 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	1024 vs 768
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	45426 vs 26608

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

5.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 80 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 680M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

45426

26608

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6550M	AMD Radeon 680M
PassMark - G2D Mark	495
PassMark - G3D Mark	9786
Geekbench - OpenCL	45426	26608
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		378

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6550M	AMD Radeon 680M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	RDNA 2.0
Code name	Navi 24	Rembrandt
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	207	1232
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2840 MHz	2200 MHz
Compute units	16	12
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	6 nm
Pipelines	1024	768
Pixel fill rate	90.88 GPixel/s	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	181.8 GTexel/s	105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	13100 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		3.379 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	2.2	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6