Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 550 512SP - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 550 512SP
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Navi 24
Baffin
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
512
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
34.27
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Vulkan
1.3
1.2