GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1710MHz vs 1183MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+731%
10070
Radeon RX 550X
1211
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Dec 2018
GeForce 20
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
512
184
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Lexa
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Turing
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
12 nm
Process Size
14 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.4