AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6600

Price

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$ 225.00

$ 200.88

$ 24.12 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points

4302 points

592% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

86 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

65 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

78 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

37 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

8131 points

583% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18838 points

75685 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

76157 points

443% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

61842 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19855 points

100044 points

403% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

73158 points

492% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

86589 points

433% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1626 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

2491 MHz

110% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

224 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

163% significantly lower TDP

132 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

159.4 Gigapixels/s

742% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

279 Gigatexels/s

636% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1792

250% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 586

117th 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

2021 October

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 6600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6600 beats the Radeon RX 550 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6600 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 at 132 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6600 is faster than the Radeon RX 550.