Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 5500
    113%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

13% higher gaming performance.
100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500

The Radeon RX 5500 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders1408vs2816
Compute Units22vs22
Core clock1670 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs96
TMUs88vs176

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP150 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs2 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    77
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    55

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    46
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    39

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    26
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    32

FPS (higher is better)