AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • 133.6x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 283.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • 3.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 180 Watt
  • 175x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s
Launch date 20 Apr 2017 vs 15 August 2016
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel/s vs 283.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 180 Watt
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • Around 50% higher boost clock speed: 1771 MHz vs 1183 MHz
  • 5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 512
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Core clock speed 1607 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed 1771 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 512
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Name AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 463
PassMark - G3D Mark 2027
Geekbench - OpenCL 55504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 819.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4195
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4195
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7241

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Lexa GP104
Launch date 20 Apr 2017 15 August 2016
Place in performance rating 285 287
Launch price (MSRP) $499.99
Price now $439.99
Type Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 43.70

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1183 MHz 1771 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines 512 2560
Pixel fill rate 18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel/s 283.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 180 Watt
Transistor count 2200 million 7,200 million
CUDA cores 2560
Floating-point performance 9,068 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 56.00 GB/s 320 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective 10 GB/s
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready