NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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

5387 points

96% significantly better overall score

2735 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

42 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

53 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

313% significantly higher Blender score

380.88 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45145 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

52% significantly 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

384 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

182.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

11% 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

94th of 586

165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6550M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6550M in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 6550M.