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: 13221 vs 708
- Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 767 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 | 13221 vs 708 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 767 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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 | AMD Radeon HD 6550A |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 13221 | 708 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 767 | 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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | No outputs |
DisplayPort support | ||
Dual-link DVI support | ||
HDMI | ||
VGA | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12 | 11.2 (11_0) |
OpenCL | 2.0 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.4 |
Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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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 |
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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 |