GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with 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 ROPs.

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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

The GeForce RTX 2080 should theoretically 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 should be a lot (approximately 692%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 is a lot (more or less 451%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the 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 better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.