NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

23% slightly better overall score

2735 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

61 FPS

Identical

61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

42 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

53 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

24 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

380.88 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45145 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53865 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

122% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

182.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

5.8 TFLOPS

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6550M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 6550M in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon RX 6550M.