NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1845MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +16%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +17%

5754

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4915

Blender

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +1%

544

Radeon RX 5500 XT

535

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +4%

24

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +4%

45

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +5%

75

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +71%

72

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +25%

74

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

Radeon RX 5500 XT +3%

124

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

-

2816

Shading Units

1408

176

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Navi 14

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

601 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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