Radeon RX 6550S: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 6550S sales 4 January 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 6 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 128.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6550S: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 24 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 4 January 2023 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 6550S's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6550S's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1024 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 2400 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 5,400 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 6 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 153.6 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.915 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 64 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 16 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 6550S and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6550S: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 128.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6550S. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 6550S, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 6550S is GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile.
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