Radeon Vega 3 Embedded vs HD 6550D

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1092not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.15no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameSumoPicasso-M
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 June 2011 (13 years ago)2019 (5 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 cores400192
Core clock speed600 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate12.0014.40
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs2012

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP
WidthIGPIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory+no 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 outputsMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 32 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 10 Watt

Vega 3 Embedded has a 166.7% more advanced lithography process, and 550% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550D and Radeon Vega 3 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.


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