NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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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$ 367.70

$ 349.00

$ 18.70 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

172% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

124% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

365% significantly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

1607 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

1845 MHz

7% 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

448 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

130 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

85% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

93% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

93% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

109% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

109% 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

67th of 586

171st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in our tests.

Our database shows that 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.