AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1845MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (110W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +4%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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