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Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti features clock speeds of 1480 MHz on the GPU, and 1376 MHz on the 11264 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 88 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1100 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 27629 points
Radeon RX 550 3507 points
Difference: 24122 (688%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 250 Watts
Difference: 200 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be 332% faster than the Radeon RX 550 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 495616 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 380928 (332%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be a lot (about 842%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 331520 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 296320 (842%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a lot (approximately 640%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 112640 (640%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 1080 Ti Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2017 April 2017
Code Name GP102 Polaris 12
Memory 11264 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1480 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 11008 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 495616 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 331520 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 130240 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 3584 512
Texture Mapping Units 224 32
Render Output Units 88 16
Bus Type GDDR5X GDDR5
Bus Width 352-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 14 nm
Transistors 12000 million 2200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

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