Radeon RX 6550M vs ATI HD 4100

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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
ArchitectureRV6xx (2008−2010)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 24
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 November 2009 (15 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 cores401024
Core clock speed350 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2840 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data181.8
Floating-point processing powerno data5.816 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data144.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2009 4 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 6 nm

RX 6550M has an age advantage of 13 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 816.7% more advanced lithography process.

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