NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1710MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +817%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 20

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

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

17.14 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 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

Baffin

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

3 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

123 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

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