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GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3080 has a core clock speed of 1440 MHz and a GDDR6X memory speed of 1188 MHz. It also uses a 320-bit memory bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 8704 SPUs, 272 TAUs, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 320 Watts
Difference: 170 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3080 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 778547 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 549171 (239%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 will be quite a bit (about 167%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 391680 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 244720 (167%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 is superior to the Radeon RX 5500, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 138240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 84800 (159%)

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 3080 Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2020 October 2019
Code Name Ampere GA102-200-KD-A1 Navi 14 XT
Memory 10240 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1440 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 1188 GB/s 1750 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 320 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 778547 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 391680 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 138240 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 8704 1408
Texture Mapping Units 272 88
Render Output Units 96 32
Bus Type GDDR6X GDDR6
Bus Width 320-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 28300 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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

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GeForce RTX 3080

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Radeon RX 5500

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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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