AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +16%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4915

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +17%

5754

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT

535

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +1%

544

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +4%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +4%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +5%

75

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +71%

72

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +25%

74

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +3%

124

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jun 2015

Navi

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

2816

88

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

96

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GM200

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

8 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

601 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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