GeForce RTX 2080 and Radeon RX 550X Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 2080

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

Turing TU104

Polaris 12

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

August 2018

January 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

1287 MHz

Core clock speed

1515 MHz

1176 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2944

640

Power consumption (TDP)

215 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

314.6

51.48

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

No outputs

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync

VR Ready