AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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AMD Radeon RX 6550S

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6550S 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 167% (2400MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550S +611%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S

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Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Apr 2013

Navi Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

6

-

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

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

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Mars

Navi 24

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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