NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

7296 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (130W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +472%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +260%

17724

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +243%

79

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +223%

139

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +154%

181

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +224%

107

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +153%

162

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +115%

190

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +121%

93

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +138%

141

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +38%

172

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

8704

Shading Units

1408

272

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

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

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 14

GA102-200-KD-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

Board Design

320W

TDP

130W

700 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 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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