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AMD Radeon HD 6550D

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D is a graphics card released on June 20, 2011, built on the TeraScale 2 architecture. It has 400 shading units, a boost clock of 600 MHz and a 100 W board power rating. It scores 400 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11.3 (FL 11_0), OpenGL 4.5 and OpenCL 1.2.

TeraScale 2BeaverCreek

5/10 key specs recorded · 20 facts

Depth: 30 recorded fields, 4 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 5 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

400cores

Memory

n/a

Boost clock

n/a

600 MHz base

Board power

100 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D scores 400 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 32.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,992), measured across 813 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 132.

PassMark G3D Mark

400

Rank #1,992
Faster than 32.5% of 2,658 GPUs
813 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 11 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 21.8% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 4 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 7.8% of 1,430 GPUs

GPU Compute 265 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 11.6% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon HD 6550D averages DirectX 9 11 fps, DirectX 10 1 fps, DirectX 11 4 fps and GPU Compute 265 ops/s, across 813 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface UNB/MC

Core clock 600 MHz

DirectX 11

OpenGL 4.4

Max TDP 100 W

First benchmarked 2011-08-21

Samples 813

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon HD 6550D states the UNB/MC interface, a core clock of 600 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4, first benchmarked on 2011-08-21. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture TeraScale 2

Codename BeaverCreek

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D is based on the TeraScale 2 architecture and uses the BeaverCreek graphics processor.

Shader configuration

Shading units 400

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 20

Render output units (ROPs) 8

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D has 400 shading units, 20 texture mapping units and 8 render output units.

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the AMD Radeon HD 6550D.

Clock speeds

Base clock 600 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D runs at a base clock of 600 MHz.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D has a board power rating of 100 W and it connects over UNB/MC.

Board power (TDP) 100 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface UNB/MC

Market

Launched June 20, 2011

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series Radeon HD

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D was released on June 20, 2011.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 400

PassMark G2D 132

Rank #1,992

Samples 813

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D supports DirectX 11.3 (FL 11_0), OpenGL 4.5 and OpenCL 1.2.

DirectX 11.3 (FL 11_0)

OpenGL 4.5

OpenCL 1.2

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon HD 6550D. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon HD 6550D.

Naming and aliases

The AMD Radeon HD 6550D is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as AMD Radeon HD 6550D (Engineering Sample - WDDM v1., AMD Radeon HD 6550D (Engineering Sample), AMD Radeon HD 6550D Graphics, AMD Radeon HD 6550D (Engineering Sample - WDDM v1.20) and 7900 MOD - AMD Radeon HD 6550D.

Other names (PassMark) AMD Radeon HD 6550D (Engineering Sample - WDDM v1.; AMD Radeon HD 6550D (Engineering Sample); AMD Radeon HD 6550D Graphics; AMD Radeon HD 6550D (Engineering Sample - WDDM v1.20); 7900 MOD - AMD Radeon HD 6550D