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.

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

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		55523
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