AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (103.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +183%

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

May 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

512

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

171W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

G80

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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