AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) 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 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- Around 52% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1216 MHz
- 1127.8x more texture fill rate: 162.4 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
- Around 54% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
- 2000x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
| Launch date | 12 Dec 2019 vs 21 September 2015 |
| Boost clock speed | 1845 MHz vs 1216 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 162.4 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm vs 28 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 130 Watt vs 100-200 Watt |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
- Around 45% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1408
- 3.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4053 vs 1032
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Pipelines | 2048 vs 1408 |
| Benchmarks | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 4053 vs 1032 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score |
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| Name | AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) |
|---|---|---|
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 9104 | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 775 | |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 44527 | |
| 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 | 1032 | 4053 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) | |
|---|---|---|
Essentials |
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| Architecture | RDNA 1.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Code name | Navi 14 | GM204 |
| Launch date | 12 Dec 2019 | 21 September 2015 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $169 | $395.82 |
| Place in performance rating | 306 | 304 |
| Type | Desktop, Laptop | Laptop |
| Price now | $605.06 | |
| Value for money (0-100) | 20.91 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1845 MHz | 1216 MHz |
| Compute units | 22 | |
| Core clock speed | 1607 MHz | |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | 28 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 | 2048 |
| Pixel fill rate | 59.04 GPixel/s | |
| Texture fill rate | 162.4 GTexel/s | 144 billion / sec |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 130 Watt | 100-200 Watt |
| Transistor count | 6400 million | 5,200 million |
| CUDA cores | 2048 | |
| Floating-point performance | 4,358 gflops | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
| DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
| G-SYNC support | ||
| HDCP | ||
| HDMI | ||
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Multi monitor support | ||
| VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| 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 | |
| Width | Dual-slot | |
| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Laptop size | large | |
| SLI options | 1 | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.1 | 12.0 (12_1) |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB/s | 224 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 128 bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz | 7.0 GB/s |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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| 4K H264 Decode | ||
| 4K H264 Encode | ||
| H265/HEVC Decode | ||
| H265/HEVC Encode | ||
| HDMI 4K Support | ||
| 3D Vision | ||
| Adaptive Vertical Sync | ||
| BatteryBoost | ||
| CUDA | ||
| GameStream | ||
| GameWorks | ||
| GeForce Experience | ||
| GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
| GPU Boost | ||
| H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
| Optimus | ||
| SLI | ||
| Surround | ||
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