AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1710MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +2358%

29.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1200

GeForce RTX 3080 +1379%

17753

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce RTX 3080 +1216%

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce RTX 3080 +1058%

139

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce RTX 3080 +761%

181

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce RTX 3080 +1428%

107

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce RTX 3080 +1057%

162

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce RTX 3080 +850%

190

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 3080 +104%

172

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2020

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

68

512

Shading Units

8704

32

TMUs

272

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

320W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA102

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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