AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1733MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +547%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

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GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2017

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

352.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GP104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GP104-410-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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