Radeon HD 8490 OEM and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Caicos

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

July 2013

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

875 MHz

Floating-point performance

280.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

7.000

153.6

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3