AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

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AMD Radeon RX 6550S

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550S and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 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 late

Boost Clock has increased by 181% (2400MHz vs 855MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6550S +1160%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550S

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2014

Navi Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

5

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Jet

Navi 24

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

56 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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