NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs AMD Radeon 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 106% (2505MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

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

9216 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +3808%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 40

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

9728

Shading Units

512

304

TMUs

32

112

ROPs

16

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Lexa

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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