AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +358%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

105W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G92

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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