AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6550M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • Around 93% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1475 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 2.9x more memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 23 June 2017
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Boost clock speed 2840 MHz vs 1475 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 377.6 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
  • 4x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1024
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 839 vs 497
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13369 vs 9740
  • Around 73% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 78565 vs 45301
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 377.6 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 839 vs 497
PassMark - G3D Mark 13369 vs 9740
Geekbench - OpenCL 78565 vs 45301

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
497
839
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9740
13369
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
45301
78565
Name AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X
PassMark - G2D Mark 497 839
PassMark - G3D Mark 9740 13369
Geekbench - OpenCL 45301 78565
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13123
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Navi 24 Vega 10
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 23 June 2017
Place in performance rating 205 202

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2840 MHz 1475 MHz
Compute units 16 64
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 1024 4096
Pixel fill rate 90.88 GPixel/s 94.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s 377.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 12500 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 755.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 24.17 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 12.08 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 2.2 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 402.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)