NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 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 RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

7552 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1845MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +489%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +283%

18851

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4915

Blender

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +936%

5543

Radeon RX 5500 XT

535

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +282%

88

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +251%

151

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +169%

191

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +230%

109

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +187%

184

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +125%

198

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +123%

94

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +140%

142

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +38%

172

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

1408

280

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 14

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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