Radeon RX 6550M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon RX 6550M is the 2023 refresh of AMD's Navi 24 entry gaming die — a small, efficient RDNA 2 card that became the value engine of budget gaming laptops. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 2 catalog models that carry it.

Where the Radeon RX 6550M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 50.2 ranks it 124th of 341 — the top half of the table. The neighbors: the RTX A500 (50.9), an API-remapped RTX 4090 Laptop record (50.7) and the current RTX 5060 (50.3) directly above; the RX 6500M (49.6) — its own smaller sibling — plus the Radeon 780M pair (49.4/49.3) below. Ranking one place below a current-generation RTX card is the Navi 24 refresh earning its keep.

What the chip brings

RDNA 2 on TSMC 6nm: 1024 stream processors boosting to 2560MHz, 4GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus, an 80W envelope, 5.8 teraflops and Resizable BAR support. Public benchmarks: PassMark 9637, Time Spy 4546, Fire Strike 14696 — strong compute for the silicon size, courtesy of very high clocks on the modern node.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 160, Counter-Strike 2 at 130, DOTA 2 at 120, Fortnite at 110, Far Cry 5 at 91, Battlefield 5, Forza Horizon 4 at 90 each, The Witcher 3 at 83, Forza Horizon 5 at 70, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 55, Cyberpunk 2077 and Metro Exodus at 50 each. Every row at or near 60-plus — the complete 1080p high table, with esports at triple digits.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings, both HP Victus 15 budget-gaming machines of 2023: the 15z-fb100 at $662 and 15-fb2063dx at $712. Fleet medians: best-CPU 72.2, gaming index 59, performance index 73 — the best-GPU median (63.1) runs above this chip, reflecting the stronger GPU options offered on the same Victus platform. Alongside the RX 6500M page in this catalog (whose six-machine roster includes these very models), this is the AMD side of the Victus 15 story.

Bottom line

The RX 6550M is the budget-gaming sweet spot of its year: a full 1080p high-preset table, esports at triple digits, inside $662-712 machines with current CPUs. The 4GB buffer is the one honest limit — texture-heavy titles want a settings pass. Against its 6500M sibling it adds clock speed and ranking; against the RTX 5060 it concedes a rung at a much lower price. Strong value, clearly priced.