AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile +185%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

All-In-One

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

10

-

480

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.505 TFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

94.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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