AMD Radeon RX 6550M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6550M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6550M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1365 MHz
Around 82% higher boost clock speed: 2840 MHz vs 1560 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 2 Apr 2020
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1365 MHz
Boost clock speed	2840 MHz vs 1560 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Around 65% higher texture fill rate: 299.5 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
3x more pipelines: 3072 vs 1024
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB

Texture fill rate	299.5 GTexel/s vs 181.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3072 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6550M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	464
PassMark - G3D Mark	9604
Geekbench - OpenCL	45053
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		10821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		20291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		20291
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		58

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6550M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Turing
Code name	Navi 24	TU104
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	2 Apr 2020
Place in performance rating	215	212
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2840 MHz	1560 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1365 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	12 nm
Pipelines	1024	3072
Pixel fill rate	90.88 GPixel/s	99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	181.8 GTexel/s	299.5 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	13600 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		299.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		19.17 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		9.585 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width		Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	2.2	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	448.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6