Radeon RX 580 2048SP and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 20

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 2018

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1284 MHz

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

1168 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

164.4

153.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.0

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3