Radeon RX 6550S vs RX 470

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking258not rated
Place by popularity55not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation17.62no data
Power efficiency12.15no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameEllesmereNavi 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores20481024
Core clock speed926 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHz2400 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate154.4153.6
Floating-point processing power4.94 TFLOPS4.915 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12864
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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1650 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

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.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 50 Watt

RX 6550S has an age advantage of 6 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 140% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 6550S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 470 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 6550S is a notebook one.


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