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) |
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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) | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12.0 (12_1) |
OpenCL | 2.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Shader Model | 6.7 (6.4) | |
Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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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 |
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3D Vision | ||
Ansel | ||
CUDA | ||
GPU Boost | ||
Multi Monitor | ||
Multi-Projection | ||
ShadowWorks | ||
SLI | ||
Virtual Reality | ||
VR Ready |