NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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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$ 365.00

$ 299.99

$ 65.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

81% significantly better overall score

2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

49159 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

54355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

1670 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

1845 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 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

180 W

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

70% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

70% 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

104th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs Radeon RX 5500 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 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 is better than the Radeon RX 5500.

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