AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon Vega 6

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 6, 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

621 points

97% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

823 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14002 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7003 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15900 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

7199 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6854 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

266% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz

1700 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

45 W

11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s

39% slightly higher pixel rate

13.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s

40.8 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly 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

307th of 586

373rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 Vega 6 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 6 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 550 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 6 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 6 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 550 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 550 is better than the Radeon Vega 6.