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

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (130W vs 350W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +489%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +282%

18801

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT

1629

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +249%

5697

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +282%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +251%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +169%

191

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +230%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +187%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +125%

198

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +123%

94

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +140%

142

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +38%

172

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

Navi

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

8960

88

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GA102

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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