Radeon RX 6550M vs Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta-16

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated211
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.95
ArchitectureFahrenheit (1998−2000)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV5 B6Navi 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date22 March 1999 (25 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year 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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed100 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2840 MHz
Number of transistors15 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology250 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rate0.2181.8
Floating-point processing powerno data5.816 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs264
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
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x4
Width1-slotno data
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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed133 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.064 GB/s144.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x VGAPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 1999 4 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 250 nm 6 nm

RX 6550M has an age advantage of 23 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 4066.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta-16 and Radeon RX 6550M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta-16 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 6550M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta-16
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