AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP 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 RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +817%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Sep 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/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

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

TU104

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

123 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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