AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 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

2735 points
42789 points
1464% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS
1019 FPS
958 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

42 FPS
503 FPS
461 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

53 FPS
740 FPS
687 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

24 FPS
425 FPS
402 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

380.88 points
14992.38 points
3836% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45145 points
383325 points
749% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53865 points
380401 points
606% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
32 GiB
700% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
512 Bit
700% significantly larger memory bus width

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
176
175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

165th of 586
1st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

-
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

-
4.6

Radeon RX 6550M vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the Radeon RX 6550M in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 over the Radeon RX 6550M.

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