Radeon RX 7500 XT vs HD 6550D

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1091not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.11no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameSumoNavi 33
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 June 2011 (13 years ago)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 cores4001024
Core clock speed600 MHz1452 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2300 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million13,300 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate12.00147.2
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS9.421 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2064
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x8
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data216.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 32 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 100 Watt

HD 6550D has 53.8% lower power consumption.

RX 7500 XT, on the other hand, has a 433.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550D and Radeon RX 7500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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