AMD Radeon RX 6800M vs NVIDIA T550 Mobile Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The benchmark data offers a stark contrast between these two mobile graphics processors. In the two recorded head-to-head comparisons, the AMD Radeon RX 6800M decisively outperforms the NVIDIA T550 Mobile in every single test. The NVIDIA T550 Mobile does not secure a single victory in the recorded benchmarks, with the AMD part taking both wins.

In the Geekbench OpenCL test, the AMD Radeon RX 6800M scores 87,621 against the NVIDIA T550 Mobile's 35,521. This represents a delta of -59.5% for the NVIDIA part, meaning the AMD GPU is roughly 147% faster in raw compute performance. The margin is substantial and reflects the fundamental difference in the positioning of these two products.

The Geekbench Vulkan test shows an even wider gap. The AMD Radeon RX 6800M reaches 94,766 points, while the NVIDIA T550 Mobile manages 30,801. The delta here is -67.5% for the NVIDIA part, indicating that the AMD solution is more than three times faster in this API. Vulkan performance is particularly relevant for modern game engines and cross-platform workloads, making this a significant differentiator.

Looking at the broader database context, the NVIDIA T550 Mobile holds a percentile ranking of 77 among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 33,161. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile (average score 33,170, delta 0%), the AMD Radeon Pro 570 (average score 33,207, delta -0.1%), the NVIDIA P104-100 (average score 32,982, delta 0.5%), and the NVIDIA T600 Mobile (average score 32,849, delta 1%). This places the T550 Mobile in a competitive mid-range segment where small percentage differences separate adjacent products.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800M, by contrast, sits at percentile 74 with an average benchmark score of 28,874. Its nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon RX 570 (average score 28,766, delta 0.4%), the AMD Radeon RX 470 (average score 28,996, delta -0.4%), the AMD Radeon R9 M295X (average score 28,580, delta 1%), and the Intel Arc A370M (average score 29,175, delta -1%). Interestingly, despite the RX 6800M winning both head-to-head tests by huge margins, its average score across all benchmark suites is actually lower than the T550 Mobile's average. This is because the RX 6800M's benchmark suite includes additional tests such as Passmark DirectX 9, 10, 11, and 12, plus G2D, G3D, and GPU compute, which drag down its aggregate. The raw compute-oriented OpenCL and Vulkan results, however, clearly favor the AMD part.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the Geekbench OpenCL benchmark?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 6800M wins decisively with a score of 87,621 compared to the NVIDIA T550 Mobile's 35,521, a delta of -59.5% for the NVIDIA part.

Q: How large is the performance gap in the Vulkan API?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 6800M scores 94,766 in Geekbench Vulkan versus 30,801 for the NVIDIA T550 Mobile, representing a -67.5% delta for the NVIDIA GPU. The AMD part is more than three times faster in this workload.

Q: What is the average benchmark score for each GPU?

A: The NVIDIA T550 Mobile has an average benchmark score of 33,161 across its test suite, while the AMD Radeon RX 6800M has an average of 28,874. The T550 Mobile's average is higher despite losing both head-to-head comparisons.

Q: How do these GPUs rank against all other GPUs in the database?

A: The NVIDIA T550 Mobile sits at the 77th percentile, while the AMD Radeon RX 6800M ranks at the 74th percentile. Despite the RX 6800M's dominance in the head-to-head tests, its broader benchmark profile places it slightly lower in overall percentile.

Q: What are the nearest rivals for each GPU?

A: For the NVIDIA T550 Mobile, the closest competitors are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile (delta 0%), AMD Radeon Pro 570 (delta -0.1%), NVIDIA P104-100 (delta 0.5%), and NVIDIA T600 Mobile (delta 1%). For the AMD Radeon RX 6800M, the nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon RX 570 (delta 0.4%), AMD Radeon RX 470 (delta -0.4%), AMD Radeon R9 M295X (delta 1%), and Intel Arc A370M (delta -1%).

Q: Does the NVIDIA T550 Mobile win any head-to-head benchmark?

A: No. The recorded data shows the AMD Radeon RX 6800M winning both head-to-head benchmarks (Geekbench OpenCL and Vulkan), with the NVIDIA T550 Mobile recording zero wins.

Where Each One Wins

The AMD Radeon RX 6800M is the clear choice for computationally intensive workloads that leverage the OpenCL and Vulkan APIs. In OpenCL, which is commonly used for general-purpose GPU computing, scientific simulation, and video encoding acceleration, the RX 6800M's 87,621 score dwarfs the T550 Mobile's 35,521. The Vulkan result is even more lopsided: 94,766 versus 30,801. Vulkan is the foundation of many modern game engines and is increasingly used in professional visualization tools. For anyone running applications that utilize these APIs, the RX 6800M offers dramatically superior performance.

The NVIDIA T550 Mobile, despite losing both head-to-head tests, does not lack merit in the database's broader context. Its average benchmark score of 33,161 is actually higher than the RX 6800M's 28,874, which suggests that in other benchmark categories not covered by the head-to-head comparison, the T550 Mobile may exhibit more balanced performance. The T550 Mobile's nearest rivals, such as the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile and T600 Mobile, all cluster within a 1% delta, indicating that this GPU competes effectively within its own performance tier. The T550 Mobile is positioned for professional mobile workstations where the Quadro driver stack and reliability may matter more than raw compute throughput.

For the AMD Radeon RX 6800M, the use case is clearly high-performance gaming and compute in a mobile form factor. Its nearest rivals, the Radeon RX 570, RX 470, R9 M295X, and Intel Arc A370M, are all desktop or older mobile parts, which places the RX 6800M in a different competitive context. The RX 6800M's 12 GB memory capacity and higher bandwidth make it suitable for large datasets and high-resolution textures, whereas the T550 Mobile's 4 GB allocation is more appropriate for lighter workloads.

Specification Differences

The memory configuration presents the most immediate distinction. The NVIDIA T550 Mobile ships with 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 96.00 GB/s. The AMD Radeon RX 6800M offers 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, delivering 384.0 GB/s, exactly four times the bandwidth. Memory clock rates also differ: the T550 Mobile runs at 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective), while the RX 6800M runs at 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective).

Compute unit counts are heavily skewed toward the AMD part. The T550 Mobile has 1,024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 32 raster operations pipelines. The RX 6800M features 2,560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. The AMD GPU also includes 40 ray tracing cores, a feature entirely absent from the NVIDIA Turing-based T550 Mobile.

Clock speeds favor the AMD part significantly. The T550 Mobile has a base clock of 1065 MHz and a boost clock of 1665 MHz. The RX 6800M operates at a base clock of 2116 MHz, a game clock of 2300 MHz, and a boost clock of 2390 MHz. These higher clocks, combined with the larger shader count, explain the massive FP32 throughput difference: 3.410 TFLOPS for NVIDIA versus 12.24 TFLOPS for AMD. The FP16 figures are 6.820 TFLOPS (2:1) and 24.47 TFLOPS (2:1) respectively.

The power envelope differs substantially, with the T550 Mobile rated at 23 W and the RX 6800M at 145 W. Both use an IGP slot width with no power connectors, but the thermal and power delivery requirements are clearly different. The bus interface also differs: PCIe 3.0 x16 for the NVIDIA part versus PCIe 4.0 x16 for the AMD part.

Architecture Differences

The NVIDIA T550 Mobile is built on the TU117 chip using the Turing architecture, fabricated on a 12 nm process at TSMC. The die contains 4,700 million transistors on a 200 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 23.5M per mm². The architecture generation is listed as "Quadro Turing-M (Tx000)." This GPU supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The predecessor is listed as Quadro Pascal-M, with a successor of Ampere-MW.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800M uses the Navi 22 chip with the RDNA 2.0 architecture, built on a 7 nm process at TSMC. This more advanced process node houses 17,200 million transistors on a 335 mm² die, giving a transistor density of 51.3M per mm², more than double the NVIDIA part's density. The generation is listed as "Navi Mobile (RX 6000M)," with a predecessor of Polaris Mobile and no recorded successor. The RX 6800M supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), which includes features like DirectX Raytracing and variable rate shading, whereas the T550 Mobile only supports DirectX 12 (12_1). Both support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4.

The manufacturing date is recorded for the AMD part as May 30, 2021, while the NVIDIA part has no recorded release date. Both are marked as end-of-life production status. The architectural differences are fundamental: Turing is a professional-oriented architecture with an emphasis on workstation reliability, while RDNA 2.0 is a gaming-first architecture with dedicated ray tracing hardware. The 40 ray tracing cores in the RX 6800M represent a feature category the T550 Mobile cannot access at all, and the DX12 Ultimate support enables modern rendering techniques that the older Turing design lacks. The process node advantage (7 nm versus 12 nm) and higher transistor density allow AMD to pack significantly more compute resources into a similar physical footprint, which is reflected in the measured performance deltas.