AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6550M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • 676.3x more texture fill rate: 181.8 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.4x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 24 June 2015
Boost clock speed 2840 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

  • 4x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1024
  • Around 82% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 843 vs 462
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10015 vs 8967
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 4096 vs 1024
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 843 vs 462
PassMark - G3D Mark 10015 vs 8967

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
462
843
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8967
10015
Name AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 843
PassMark - G3D Mark 8967 10015
Geekbench - OpenCL 45828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 155.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3431.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 153.089
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 857.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5170

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Navi 24 Fiji
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 24 June 2015
Place in performance rating 217 219
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2840 MHz 1050 MHz
Compute units 16 64
Core clock speed 2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 4096
Pixel fill rate 90.88 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s 268.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 8,900 million
Floating-point performance 8,602 gflops
Stream Processors 4096

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 191 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 2.2 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1050 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)