AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

VS

AMD Radeon 550X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +707%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Sep 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2944

32

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

TU104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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