GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which has clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units 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 RTX 2080		26155 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 22648 (646%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (330%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2080 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 344064 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 will be quite a bit (more or less 692%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 243560 (692%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 79360 (451%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.