AMD Radeon R9 M485X vs AMD Radeon RX 6550S

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

AMD Radeon RX 6550S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6550S 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2400MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M485X

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S +65%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X

VS

Radeon RX 6550S

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2023

Crystal System

Generation

Navi Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

16

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Navi 24

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

Navi 24

GCN 3.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

5 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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