AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800 AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (2105MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 +1374%

16.17 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2017

Navi II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

8

3840

Shading Units

512

240

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Baffin

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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