AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and AMD Radeon HD 6550A 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 Vega 56

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1156 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 21153.8x more texture fill rate: 330.00 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
  • 7.5x more pipelines: 3584 vs 480
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 18.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13228 vs 708
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 609
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 August 2017 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed 1156 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 330.00 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3584 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13228 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 vs 609

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

  • 59.4x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 10.5 TFLOPs
  • 6x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 210 Watt
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops vs 10.5 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 210 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13228
708
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
768
609
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark 13228 708
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 609
Geekbench - OpenCL 163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6879

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Vega 10 Pinewood
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date 14 August 2017 7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Place in performance rating 224 221
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1471 MHz
Compute units 56
Core clock speed 1156 MHz 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 10.5 TFLOPs 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.5 TFLOPs
Pipelines 3584 480
Pixel fill rate 94.00 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 3584
Texture fill rate 330.00 GTexel/s 15.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 210 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 410 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type HBM2 DDR3

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