NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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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Price

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$ 1013.18
$ 299.99
$ 713.19 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7909 points
192% significantly better overall score
2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

177 FPS
116 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

127 FPS
76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

82 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11584 points
145% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4717 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2321.66 points
583% significantly higher Blender score
339.58 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

114956 points
185% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
40204 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93540 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
34601 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

118678 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
44390 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

111284 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
54355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1650 MHz
1670 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz
1845 MHz
1% 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

495.9 GB/s
121% 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

116.2 Gigapixels/s
96% significantly higher pixel rate
59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s
114% significantly higher texture rate
162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS
114% significantly better floating point performance
5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072
118% significantly more shading units
1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192
118% significantly more texture mapping units
88

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

57th of 586
166th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 5500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER beats the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming performance.

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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at 250 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 RTX 2080 SUPER is better than the Radeon RX 5500.

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