NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs AMD Radeon 550

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs AMD Radeon 550, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon 550

Price

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$ 1299.99

$ 199.00

$ 1100.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points

13062% significantly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS

472 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS

222 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS

326 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS

183 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points

2250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10272 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points

1817% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11360 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz

84% significantly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz

100% significantly higher boost clock speed

1183 MHz

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

678.4 GB/s

1111% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W

50 W

740% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s

1104% significantly higher pixel rate

18.93 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s

1907% significantly higher texture rate

37.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

1900% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

900% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

9th of 586

473rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4080 vs Radeon 550 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the Radeon 550 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 over the Radeon 550.