NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon 550X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1710MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +707%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

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

19.49 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

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

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 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

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