Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs HD 6290 IGP

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated578
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.41
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameLovelandPolaris 23
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 January 2011 (13 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 years 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 cores80640
Core clock speed400 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1287 MHz
Number of transistors450 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)9 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20051.48
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS1.647 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs840

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 datalarge
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2011 11 April 2018
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 9 Watt 50 Watt

HD 6290 IGP has 455.6% lower power consumption.

RX 550X Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6290 IGP and Radeon RX 550X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6290 IGP is a desktop card while Radeon RX 550X Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6290 IGP
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