Radeon RX 6550M: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 6550M provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 24.82% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 6550M 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 2.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 144.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. Power consumption is at 80 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6550M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking215
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency22.50of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 24
Market segmentLaptop
Release date4 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 6550M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6550M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1024of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed2000 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed2840 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors5,400 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology6 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate181.8of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power5.816 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (GA100)
TMUs64of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Ray Tracing Cores16of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 6550M 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 sizemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6550M: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6550M. 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon RX 6550M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.2
Vulkan1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 6550M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RX 6550M 24.82

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 6550M 9575

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RX 6550M 20506

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX 6550M 14696

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

RX 6550M 4546

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 6550M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD71
1440p25

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 40−45

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 50−55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 40−45
Battlefield 5 80−85
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
Cyberpunk 2077 40−45
Far Cry 5 55−60
Far Cry New Dawn 60−65
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Hitman 3 45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn 110−120
Metro Exodus 80−85
Red Dead Redemption 2 60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 80−85
Watch Dogs: Legion 100−110

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 50−55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 40−45
Battlefield 5 80−85
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
Cyberpunk 2077 40−45
Far Cry 5 55−60
Far Cry New Dawn 60−65
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Hitman 3 45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn 110−120
Metro Exodus 80−85
Red Dead Redemption 2 60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 101
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 50−55
Watch Dogs: Legion 100−110

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 50−55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 40−45
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
Cyberpunk 2077 40−45
Far Cry 5 55−60
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Hitman 3 45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn 110−120
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 88
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 49
Watch Dogs: Legion 100−110

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 60−65

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 45−50
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 24−27
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 27−30
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 27−30
Forza Horizon 4 140−150
Hitman 3 27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn 50−55
Metro Exodus 45−50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 50−55
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 30−33
Watch Dogs: Legion 130−140

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 24−27
Far Cry New Dawn 18−20
Hitman 3 18−20
Horizon Zero Dawn 120−130
Metro Exodus 27−30
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 14−16
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
Far Cry 5 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 30−33
Watch Dogs: Legion 10−12

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 21−24

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 6550M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 6550M is RTX A1000 Mobile, which is slower by 1% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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