AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6550S

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 8 months late

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

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550S +113%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

May 2013

Navi Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Neptune

Navi 24

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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