Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 vs RX 6550M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking216not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency21.35no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 24Banks
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2023 (1 year ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 cores1024320
Core clock speed2000 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speed2840 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,400 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate181.820.60
Floating-point processing power5.816 TFLOPS0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs6420
Ray Tracing Cores16no data

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s16 GB/s
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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.76.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.22.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.31.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2023 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 50 Watt

RX 6550M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

520 Mobile DDR3, on the other hand, has 60% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6550M and Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 6550M
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