AMD Radeon R9 390 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1919 points
2735 points
42% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

44 FPS
61 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS
42 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS
53 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
24 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43704 points
45145 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51251 points
53865 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
100% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

512 Bit
700% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s
166% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

160 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
13% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.12 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
13% slightly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
-

Radeon R9 390 vs Radeon RX 6550M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R9 390 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6550M over the Radeon R9 390.

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