NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 121% (2610MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +3210%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

60

SM Count

-

7680

Shading Units

512

240

TMUs

32

80

ROPs

16

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

285W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Lexa

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

4 nm

Process Size

14 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

295 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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