Radeon RX 6550M — Benchmarks & Specs
Bottom line: how fast is the Radeon RX 6550M?
At 1080p (Medium), the Radeon RX 6550M averages 115 fps in Fortnite, per technical.city. For local LLM inference it generates 33.0 tokens/sec running qwen3:30b under lmstudio, per LocalLLaMA. In Geekbench 6 OpenCL it scores 30,568 points, per Notebookcheck.
Every figure above is a row in the tables below, and each row links out to the review or public benchmark database the number was taken from. SpecPicks aggregates published measurements; it does not report first-party benchmark runs.
The Radeon RX 6550M is a graphics card from the RDNA 2 family from AMD. Data on this page draws on 10 synthetic benchmark results, 1 community AI inference report, 14 measured game frame-rate results, aggregated from public benchmark databases (TechPowerUp, PassMark, Geekbench, Cinebench) and the LocalLLaMA community. Read this page when shopping the Radeon RX 6550M, comparing it against other graphics cards in your build, or sizing it for a specific workload (gaming at 1080p/1440p/4K, productivity benchmarks, or local LLM inference).
Gaming Performance (measured FPS)
Average and 1% low frame rates by game, resolution, and quality preset. Bars are scaled against the fastest result on this page.
| Game | Resolution | Settings | Relative | Avg FPS | 1% low | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortnite | 1080p | Medium | 115 fps | — | technical.city 2023-10-01 | |
| Dota 2 Reborn | 1080p | Ultra | 103 fps | — | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| Battlefield V | 1080p | Medium | 93 fps | — | technical.city 2023-10-01 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 1080p | Medium | 91 fps | — | technical.city 2023-10-01 | |
| Strange Brigade | 1080p | Ultra | 88 fps | — | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 1080p | High | 88 fps | — | technical.city 2023-10-01 | |
| F1 22 | 1080p | High | 88 fps | — | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 1080p | High | 84 fps | — | Notebookcheck 2023-12-16 | |
| The Witcher 3 | 1080p | High | 83 fps | — | Notebookcheck 2023-12-16 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1080p | High | 83 fps | — | technical.city 2023-10-01 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 1080p | Ultra | 79 fps | — | technical.city 2023-10-01 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 1080p | Ultra | 79 fps | — | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 (2.0 Phantom Liberty) | 1080p | Low | 63 fps | — | Notebookcheck 2023-12-16 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1080p | Low | 53 fps | — | technical.city 2023-10-01 |
AI Inference Performance
Tokens per second under each model + quantization. Higher = faster generation. Bars compare runs across the same model.
| Model | Quantization | Relative | Tokens/sec | VRAM used | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3:30b | — lmstudio | 33.0 tok/s | — | LocalLLaMA 2026-02-05 |
Synthetic Benchmarks
Higher is better. Bars are scaled within each benchmark family (multi-thread, single-thread, etc.) so you can compare like-with-like at a glance.
| Benchmark | Relative | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 30,568 points | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| Geekbench 6 Vulkan | 29,898 points | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Standard | 12,994 points | Notebookcheck 2023-12-16 | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 12,994 points | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 9,672 points | PassMark Software 2023-10-25 | |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 9,628 pts | PassMark 2026-04-20 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 4,955 points | Notebookcheck 2023-01-05 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 4,725 points | 3DMark 2024-01-01 | |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 4,452 points | 3DMark (via topcpu.net GPU rankings) 2023-10-01 | |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 489 pts | PassMark 2026-04-20 |
Radeon RX 6550M — Frequently Asked Questions
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