AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 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

2707 points
2735 points
1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS
61 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
42 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS
53 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
24 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points
380.88 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points
45145 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points
0.91% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53865 points

Specifications

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

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

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
12% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
11% slightly better floating point performance

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

166th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 6550M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6550M graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M is better than the Radeon RX 5500.

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