NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q and AMD Radeon HD 6550M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1140 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 10700x more texture fill rate: 128.4 GTexel/s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • 6.4x more pipelines: 2560 vs 400
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 40 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
Launch date 2023 vs 26 November 2010
Core clock speed 1140 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 400
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550M

  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 85 Watt
  • Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 26 Watt vs 85 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 6550M

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace TeraScale 2
Code name AD107 Capilano
Launch date 2023 26 November 2010
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1605 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 400
Pixel fill rate 51.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s 12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 26 Watt
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops
Transistor count 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 168.0 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 96 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 DDR3
Shared memory 0