NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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

7102 points

159% significantly better overall score

2735 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

42 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

53 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

514% significantly higher Blender score

380.88 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45145 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

100% 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

448 GB/s

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

72% significantly higher texture rate

182.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

73% significantly 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

67th of 586

165th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

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 vs Radeon RX 6550M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 beats the Radeon RX 6550M in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 over the Radeon RX 6550M.