AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1815MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +820%

11.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1202

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +860%

11546

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +700%

48

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +658%

91

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +514%

129

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +857%

67

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +757%

120

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +720%

164

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +114%

180

Radeon RX 550

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3072

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

TU104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

TU104-450-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

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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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