Radeon RX 6550S vs L40

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD102Navi 24
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 October 2022 (2 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores181761024
Core clock speed735 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed2490 MHz2400 MHz
Number of transistors76,300 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate1,414153.6
Floating-point processing power90.52 TFLOPS4.915 TFLOPS
ROPs19232
TMUs56864
Tensor Cores568no data
Ray Tracing Cores14216

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount48 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth864.0 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.2
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2022 4 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 50 Watt

L40 has a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

RX 6550S, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and 500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between L40 and Radeon RX 6550S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that L40 is a workstation card while Radeon RX 6550S is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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