AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 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

2605 points

2735 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

61 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

42 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

53 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

24 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

380.88 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45145 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

0.05% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53865 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

171st 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 December

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 6550M benchmarks

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

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6550M over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

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