AMD Radeon RX 6700 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6700

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2450MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 +832%

11.29 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Jun 2021

Release Date

Dec 2018

Navi II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1941 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

2450 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

8

-

2304

Shading Units

512

144

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

80 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

156.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

352.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

22.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

11.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

705.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

Lexa

Navi 22 XTL

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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