AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 163% (2815MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 107W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +320%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2017

Navi II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

10

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Baffin

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

6 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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