AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 6400

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6400 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6400

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 130.03

$ 94.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

1845 points

197% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

42 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

28 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

36 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

16 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

634% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

162 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

33586 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

41105 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1923 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

2321 MHz

96% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

128 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

6% slightly lower TDP

53 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

74.3 Gigapixels/s

292% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

111.4 Gigatexels/s

194% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

768

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

306th of 586

217th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2022 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

4.6

Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX 6400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6400 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 550 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6400 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6400 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6400 at 53 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6400 is faster than the Radeon RX 550.