AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

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AMD Radeon RX 550 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 112% (2505MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +3924%

48.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 550

1202

GeForce RTX 4080 +2250%

28257

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 550

6

GeForce RTX 4080 +2100%

132

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 550

12

GeForce RTX 4080 +1950%

246

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 550

21

GeForce RTX 4080 +1328%

300

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 550

7

GeForce RTX 4080 +1657%

123

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 550

14

GeForce RTX 4080 +1078%

165

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

20

GeForce RTX 4080 +840%

188

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 550

84

GeForce RTX 4080 +116%

182

Radeon RX 550

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GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

9728

32

TMUs

304

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

AD103

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

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 16-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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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