AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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AMD Radeon RX 6550S

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6550S 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550S +283%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S

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Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2011

Navi Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

-

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

10

-

1024

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Broadway

Navi 24

GPU Variant

Broadway XT

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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