NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 299.99

$ 99.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

130% significantly better overall score

2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

109% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

153% significantly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

49159 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

54355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1670 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1845 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

175% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

175% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

116% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

135% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

118% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

118% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

154% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

154% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti beats the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 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 the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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