GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2017

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,873 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

277.3

153.6

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

11008 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

352.3 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3