NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 349.00

$ 16.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

88% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

53% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

41242 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

56001 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

Identical

1607 MHz

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

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

180 W

130 W

38% 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

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2019 December

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 XT comparison

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

Our database shows that both the GeForce GTX 1080 and Radeon RX 5500 XT both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5500 XT 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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