NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1733MHz vs 1071MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)