AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550S and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon RX 6550S

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6550S

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 832 MHz
2.1x more boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1155 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 73.92 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 17 Dec 2021
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz vs 1155 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 73.92 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt

Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6550S	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 24	GA107
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	17 Dec 2021
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz	1155 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	832 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	8 nm
Pipelines	1024	2048
Pixel fill rate	76.80 GPixel/s	36.96 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s	73.92 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		147.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		9.462 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		4.731 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		35 mm, 1.4 inches
Length		229 mm, 9 inches
Width		113 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB/s	96.00 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6