Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 6550S vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2023 Oct 2013
Generation Navi Mobile Volcanic Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 2000 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 2400 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 64bit 384bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 32
Shading Units 1024 2048
TMUs 64 128
ROPs 32 32
RT Cores 16
L1 Cache 128 KB per Array 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 768 KB
L3 Cache 16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 76.80 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 153.6 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 9.830 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 4.915 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 307.2 GFLOPS 1024 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Navi 24 Tahiti
GPU Variant Navi 24 Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 6 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.4 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 107 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 50W 250W
Outputs Portable Device Dependent 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
Shader Model 6.7 5.1