AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +212%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2007

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

1080 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

128

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G80

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

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 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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