NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1665MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +3008%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

10240

Shading Units

512

320

TMUs

32

112

ROPs

16

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Baffin

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

50W

750 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 12-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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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