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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1650 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory runs at 1937 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3072 SPUs, 192 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 130 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 250 Watts
Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 507904 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 278528 (121%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER should be quite a bit (approximately 110%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 316800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 165704 (110%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 105600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 50656 (92%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Radeon RX 5500 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2019 December 2019
Code Name TU104-450-A1 Navi 14 XTX
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1650 MHz 1717 MHz
Memory Speed 1937 GB/s 1750 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 130 watts
Bandwidth 507904 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 316800 Mtexels/sec 151096 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 105600 Mpixels/sec 54944 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 3072 1408
Texture Mapping Units 192 88
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 12 nm 7 nm
Transistors 13600 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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