AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 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

2142 points
2735 points
27% 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

33 FPS
42 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
53 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
24 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points
380.88 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points
45145 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points
53865 points
9% 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

224 GB/s
55% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s
0.11% slightly higher texture rate
182.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS
0.59% slightly better floating point performance
5.8 TFLOPS

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

199th 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 June
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 6550M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6550M beats the Radeon RX 480 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 480 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M is better than the Radeon RX 480.

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