NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 550

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 225.00

$ 174.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

906% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

731% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1190 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

18838 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

337% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14002 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

438% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15900 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

19855 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

457% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

12342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

425% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16237 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

1183 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

175% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

175% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

332% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

50 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

635% significantly higher pixel rate

18.93 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

836% significantly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

599% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

599% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

450% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

305th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 550 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is faster than the Radeon RX 550.