Radeon RX 550 Mobile and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Radeon RX 550 Mobile
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Navi 24
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1476 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
1287 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,647 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,200 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
51.48
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
2.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
FreeSync
+
-