Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce GTX 1080
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 550 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 1080 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Polaris 12 (Baffin XT) | vs | GP104 (GP104-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 314 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 7,200 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 2560 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 1125 MHz | vs | 1607 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 160 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 1080 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5X |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 550 | | GeForce GTX 1080 | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 180 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2017 | vs | 27 May 2016 |
Radeon RX 550
20.83 GP/s
GeForce GTX 1080
102.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
52.10 GT/s
GeForce GTX 1080
257.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
112.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 1080
320.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 550
1666.60 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 1080
8228.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better