PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3
vs
Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP!


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 and the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP!, 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.

Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, which has 2048 shaders and 16 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 GPU Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP!
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Baffin 10 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Baffin LE GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
10 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
640 Shader 2048
16 Render Output Units 64
40 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

2 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
6.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! is 1.165 GHz.

1.019 GHz Base Clock 1.165 GHz
1.190 GHz Boost Clock 1.266 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! has a TDP of 165 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

60 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

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

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 3 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- 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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! is 4096x2160 pixels.

5120x2880 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
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 No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 is 147 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! is 278 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

147 mm Length 278 mm
111 mm Height 111 mm
38 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! was introduced in Q3/2014 at a price of 499 $.

AXRX 550 2GBD5-DHA/OC Part-no ZT-90204-10P
Q3/2018 Release date Q3/2014
69 $ Launch Price 499 $
14 nm Structure size 28 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

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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