AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs AMD Radeon VII

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and AMD Radeon VII 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 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 43% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1750 MHz
  • 420.6x more texture fill rate: 181.8 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 7 February 2019
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Boost clock speed 2840 MHz vs 1750 MHz
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

  • 3.8x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1024
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 786 vs 460
  • Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16690 vs 8511
  • Around 95% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89406 vs 45782
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 3840 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 786 vs 460
PassMark - G3D Mark 16690 vs 8511
Geekbench - OpenCL 89406 vs 45782

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
460
786
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8511
16690
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
45782
89406
Name AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon VII
PassMark - G2D Mark 460 786
PassMark - G3D Mark 8511 16690
Geekbench - OpenCL 45782 89406
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9294

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6550M AMD Radeon VII

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 5.1
Code name Navi 24 Vega 20
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 7 February 2019
Place in performance rating 222 214
Design AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation 5th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Price now $699.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 32.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2840 MHz 1750 MHz
Compute units 16 60
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 1024 3840
Pixel fill rate 90.88 GPixel/s 115.26 GP/s
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s 432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 13,230 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.8 TFLOPs
Stream Processors 3840

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort 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 305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 W

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 2.2 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 1024 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

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