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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

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
18.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13293 vs 708
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 774 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	13293 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark	774 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

13293

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

774

609

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	13293	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	774	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	6870

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	211	213
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