NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 712 MHz vs 550 MHz
4336.5x more texture fill rate: 67.65 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
9.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6831 vs 708

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2021 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	712 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6831 vs 708

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 609 vs 403

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	609 vs 403

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6831

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

609

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	6831	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	609
Geekbench - OpenCL	50663
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	165.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1980.866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	14.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	745.481
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8045
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8045
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	421

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	TeraScale 2
Code name	GA107	Pinewood
Launch date	2021	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	248	245
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1057 MHz
Core clock speed	712 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	480
Pixel fill rate	42.28 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	67.65 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	35 Watt
Floating-point performance		624.0 gflops
Transistor count		627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.2	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3