NVIDIA T550 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA T550 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M 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

2105 points

7% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

49 FPS

59 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

40 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

33 FPS

51 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS

23 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

142.83 points

385.01 points

169% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

35193 points

39238 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31071 points

46114 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1065 MHz

2000 MHz

87% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2400 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

96 GB/s

128 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

23 W

117% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

53.28 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

106.6 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

46% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.41 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

46% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

Identical

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

202nd of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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

T550 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6500M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the T550 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500M in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the T550 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500M at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the T550 Laptop over the Radeon RX 6500M.