AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1406 MHz vs 550 MHz
27519.2x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
8.5x more pipelines: 4096 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
Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	7 August 2017 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1406 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	429.30 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4096 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

45.5x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 13.7 TFLOPs
9.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 345 Watt

Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops vs 13.7 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 345 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3362
PassMark - G3D Mark		708
PassMark - G2D Mark		609

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Vega 10	Pinewood
Design	Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date	7 August 2017	7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	216	218
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1677 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	1406 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	13.7 TFLOPs	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines	4096	480
Pixel fill rate	107.30 GP/s
Render output units	64
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	429.30 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units	256
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	345 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	282 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	1000 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	483.8 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	DDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore