GeForce RTX 4090 and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 4090

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

AD102-300-A1

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Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2022

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 16-pin

None

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

2235 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

5 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

76,300 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16384

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

450 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

1,290

153.6

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

21000 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1,008 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

3.0

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3