AMD Radeon RX 470 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 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

1827 points
2735 points
49% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS
61 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS
42 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
53 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
24 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points
45145 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points
53865 points
27% 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

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s
46% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
17% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
17% slightly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
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 RX 470 vs Radeon RX 6550M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6550M graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 470 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6550M over the Radeon RX 470.

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