PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 and the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) and has 640 texture shaders and 10 execution units.

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which has 4352 shaders and 68 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 GPU MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Baffin LE GPU Chip TU102
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 68
640 Shader 4352
16 Render Output Units 88
40 Texture Units 272
0 Raytracing Cores 68

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 has 2 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z can access 11 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 616 GB/s.

2 GB Memory Size 11 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 616 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 352 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 clocks in the base with up to 1.019 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is 1.350 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 1.350 GHz
1.190 GHz Boost Clock 1.770 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.55 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is 60 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z has a TDP of 350 W and is supplied with the required energy via 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

60 W TDP 350 W
-- TDP (up) 380 W
80 °C Tjunction max 89 °C
PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 43-44 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 supports a maximum resolution of 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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 GDDR5 OC V3 is 147 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is 328 mm long, 143 mm high and 63 mm wide.

147 mm Length 328 mm
111 mm Height 143 mm
38 mm Width 63 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1852 g
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 69 $.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z was introduced in Q3/2018 at a price of 1,649 $.

AXRX 550 2GBD5-DHA/OC Part-no --
Q3/2018 Release date Q3/2018
69 $ Launch Price 1,649 $
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)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z
11 GB GDDR6
55 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z
11 GB GDDR6
70 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z
11 GB GDDR6
97 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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