Radeon HD 8950 OEM and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2013

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

103.6

153.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3