AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 42% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1406 MHz
  • Around 69% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1677 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
  • 4.3x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 345 Watt
  • Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1890 MHz
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 7 August 2017
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed 2840 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 345 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
  • 4x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1024
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Texture fill rate 429.30 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Name AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
PassMark - G2D Mark 464
PassMark - G3D Mark 9604
Geekbench - OpenCL 45053
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Navi 24 Vega 10
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 7 August 2017
Place in performance rating 215 216
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2840 MHz 1677 MHz
Compute units 16 64
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1406 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 1024 4096
Pixel fill rate 90.88 GPixel/s 107.30 GP/s
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s 429.30 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 345 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 13.7 TFLOPs
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.4 TFLOPs
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 4096
Texture Units 256

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Length 282 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 1000 Watt

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore