Radeon RX 6550M vs ATI Mobility X1600

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated214
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.57
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM56Navi 24
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 February 2006 (18 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 cores171024
Core clock speed450 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed450 MHz2840 MHz
Number of transistors157 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rate1.800181.8
Floating-point processing powerno data5.816 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs464
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 sizemedium sizedmedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed470 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth15.04 GB/s144.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2006 4 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 6 nm

RX 6550M has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1600 and Radeon RX 6550M. We've got no test results to judge.


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