AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 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, 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 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 99% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1005 MHz
  • Around 84% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1545 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 160 Watt
  • Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 13 November 2018
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1005 MHz
Boost clock speed 2840 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 160 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

  • Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 222.5 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
  • 2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 90% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 85507 vs 45053
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 222.5 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 85507 vs 45053

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
45053
85507
Name AMD Radeon RX 6550M NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
PassMark - G2D Mark 479
PassMark - G3D Mark 9648
Geekbench - OpenCL 45053 85507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 232.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3728.135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 24.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 136.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1011.233
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20206
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7856

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6550M NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Code name Navi 24 TU104
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 13 November 2018
Place in performance rating 208 207
GCN generation Quadro RTX
Launch price (MSRP) $899
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2840 MHz 1545 MHz
Compute units 16
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1005 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 12 nm
Pipelines 1024 2304
Pixel fill rate 90.88 GPixel/s 98.88 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s 222.5 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 160 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 13600 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 222.5 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.24 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.119 TFLOPS
Render output units 64
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Length 9.5 inches (241 mm)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 2.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 416.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1625 MHz (13000 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6