AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 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

2466 points
2735 points
10% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
61 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

38 FPS
42 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
53 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS
24 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45746 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45145 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55240 points
2% 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

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s
77% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

222.48 Gigatexels/s
22% slightly higher texture rate
182.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.12 TFLOPS
22% slightly better floating point performance
5.8 TFLOPS

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

179th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
2023 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
-

Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 6550M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 590 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 590.

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