AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) 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 RX 6550M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1481 MHz
  • Around 80% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1582 MHz
  • 513x more texture fill rate: 181.8 GTexel/s vs 354.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 16 nm
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 250 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 vs 10 March 2017
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1481 MHz
Boost clock speed 2840 MHz vs 1582 MHz
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s vs 354.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

  • 3.5x more pipelines: 3584 vs 1024
  • 2.8x more maximum memory size: 11 GB vs 4 GB
  • 4.9x more memory clock speed: 11008 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
  • Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 934 vs 477
  • Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18569 vs 9629
  • Around 50% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 67458 vs 45053
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 3584 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 11 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 11008 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 934 vs 477
PassMark - G3D Mark 18569 vs 9629
Geekbench - OpenCL 67458 vs 45053

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
477
934
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9629
18569
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
45053
67458
Name AMD Radeon RX 6550M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 477 934
PassMark - G3D Mark 9629 18569
Geekbench - OpenCL 45053 67458
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2406.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1002.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9874

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6550M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
Code name Navi 24 GP102
Launch date 4 Jan 2023 10 March 2017
Place in performance rating 208 206
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Price now $826.98
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 27.48

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2840 MHz 1582 MHz
Compute units 16
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1481 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 16 nm
Pipelines 1024 3584
Pixel fill rate 90.88 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 181.8 GTexel/s 354.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 11,800 million
Floating-point performance 11,340 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 91 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 11 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 484.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 352 Bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 11008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
HDMI 2.0b
PCIe 3.0
SLI
Virtual Reality