AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 89% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 8684.5x more texture fill rate: 162.4 GTexel/s vs 18.7 billion / sec
  • 4x more pipelines: 1408 vs 352
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 11.7x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9167 vs 1617
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 785 vs 458
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Dec 2019 vs 25 May 2010
Core clock speed 1607 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 162.4 GTexel/s vs 18.7 billion / sec
Pipelines 1408 vs 352
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9167 vs 1617
PassMark - G2D Mark 785 vs 458

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

  • Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 130 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 130 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9167
1617
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
785
458
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
PassMark - G3D Mark 9167 1617
PassMark - G2D Mark 785 458
Geekbench - OpenCL 44832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 128.135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2024.814
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 125.474
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 742.778
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3367
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3367
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4882

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Fermi
Code name Navi 14 GF100
Launch date 12 Dec 2019 25 May 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $169
Place in performance rating 288 292
Type Desktop, Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1607 MHz 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 324.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.39 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.196 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408 352
Pixel fill rate 59.04 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 162.4 GTexel/s 18.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 3,100 million
Floating-point performance 598.4 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 7.09 inches (180 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Width Dual-slot
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.1 12 API
OpenCL 2.0 1.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI