PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 has 512 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.07 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.10 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.87 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 8 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Baffin LE GPU Chip TU104
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
512 Shader 2944
16 Render Output Units 64
32 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

2 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
48 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
64 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 has a turbo clock of 1.071 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G is 1.845 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.071 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 80 °C.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

50 W TDP 215 W
-- TDP (up) 250 W
80 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 35 dB
-- Noise (Load) 44 dB

Connectivity

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 3x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

5120x2880 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

152 mm Length 290 mm
111 mm Height 134 mm
38 mm Width 60 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB 64BIT GDDR5 was released in Q4/2017.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

AXRX 550 2GB64BD5-DH Part-no GV-N2080AORUS-8GC
Q4/2017 Release date Q4/2018
79 $ Launch Price 769 $
14 nm Structure size 12 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G
8 GB GDDR6
41 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 8G
8 GB GDDR6
71 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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