Radeon RX 550 640SP vs RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking770not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency13.89no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeBaffin
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)13 October 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 cores384640
Core clock speed300 MHz1019 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1071 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate40.8042.84
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS1.371 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2440

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 3.0 x8
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 13 October 2017
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 2 months, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon RX 550 640SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Radeon RX 550 640SP is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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Radeon RX 550 640SP

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