AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 550X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points

8066 points

1638% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

203 FPS

192 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

101 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

138 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

79 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

136008 points

999% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

13079 points

90751 points

593% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

118065 points

949% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12485 points

107903 points

764% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

810 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1287 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1260 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

512 GB/s

357% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

129% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s

121 Gigapixels/s

487% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

292.3 Gigatexels/s

467% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

7424

1350% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

232

480% 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

344th of 597

54th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 550X in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 550X 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 Radeon RX 550X 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550X has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop at 115 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 550X.