AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP 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 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1710MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

8064 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +2071%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2020

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

68

640

Shading Units

8704

40

TMUs

272

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

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

Baffin

GPU Name

GA102

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

123 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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