AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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AMD Radeon RX 6550M

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6550M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 184% (2840MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550M +278%

5.816 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550M

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Feb 2015

Navi Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2840 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

12

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

181.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

11.63 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.816 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

363.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Saturn

Navi 24

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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