AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.7x more pipelines: 512 vs 192
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1429 vs 322

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 15 March 2011
Pipelines	512 vs 192
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429 vs 322

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1429

322

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429	322
PassMark - G3D Mark		1557
PassMark - G2D Mark		382
Geekbench - OpenCL		5750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3322

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GF116
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	15 March 2011
Place in performance rating	949	1019
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$149
Price now		$287.59
Value for money (0-100)		7.49
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	192
Core clock speed		1800 MHz
CUDA cores		192
Floating-point performance		691.2 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		100 °C
Texture fill rate		28.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		116 Watt
Transistor count		1,170 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.2
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		8.25" (21 cm)
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		One 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		98.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		192 Bit
Memory clock speed		1026 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI