AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (2520MHz vs 1845MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

14976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +1489%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

GeForce RTX 4090 +643%

36541

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT

1629

GeForce RTX 4090 +693%

12921

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

GeForce RTX 4090 +704%

185

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 4090 +551%

280

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

GeForce RTX 4090 +328%

304

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

GeForce RTX 4090 +463%

186

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

GeForce RTX 4090 +217%

203

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GeForce RTX 4090 +142%

213

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GeForce RTX 4090 +297%

167

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GeForce RTX 4090 +213%

185

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce RTX 4090 +50%

186

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Sep 2022

Navi

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1010GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

128

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

16384

88

TMUs

512

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

AD102

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

450W

300 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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