nvidia
Brand8GB GDDR5X
Memory2560
Cores320.3 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
amd
Brand4GB GDDR6
Memory1408
Cores224 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 1080
$599 • May 2016
Radeon RX 5500 XT
$169 • Dec 2019
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5X | GDDR6 |
| TDP | 180 W | 130 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1733 MHz | 1845 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 320.3 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
| Process Size | 16nm | 7nm |
| Architecture | Pascal | RDNA 1.0 |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 1408 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 160 | 88 |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1251 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 110.9 GPixel/s | 59.04 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 320.3 GTexel/s | 224 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 8.873 GFLOPS | 5.196 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 2.00 MB | 2.00 MB |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | 158 mm² |
| Transistors | 7200 Million | 6400 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| DirectX | 12.1 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR5X
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
AMD • 4GB GDDR6
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