NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

29% slightly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

61 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

48 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

48577 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1607 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1845 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

42% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

18% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

44% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

81% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

81% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5500 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.