AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon VII 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 VII

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 550 MHz
27.7x more texture fill rate: 432.24 GT/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
8x more pipelines: 3840 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2 GB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
23.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16546 vs 708
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 790 vs 609

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 February 2019 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	16546 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark	790 vs 609

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

8.6x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon VII
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

16546

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

790

609

Name	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	16546	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	790	609
Geekbench - OpenCL	92136
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9325

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	TeraScale 2
Code name	Vega 20	Pinewood
Design	AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation	5th Gen
Launch date	7 February 2019	7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	226	225
Price now	$699.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	3840	480
Pixel fill rate	115.26 GP/s
Stream Processors	3840
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 W
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 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