AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6450 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 225.00
$ 27.00
$ 198.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points
infinity significantly better overall score
0 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points
2115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
632 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points
1834% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
638 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz
57% significantly higher boost clock speed
750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
300% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s
1300% significantly higher memory bandwidth
8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
30 W
66% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 586
583rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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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 550 vs Radeon HD 6450 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6450 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 550 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon HD 6450 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 is better than the Radeon HD 6450.

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