NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1845MHz vs 1733MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +70%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +53%

7536

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4915

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +39%

32

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +44%

62

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +39%

99

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +57%

52

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +51%

97

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +45%

128

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +33%

56

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +25%

74

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +24%

154

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1408

160

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 14

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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