Radeon Pro W5500X vs GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 288 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 20.24 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 10.55 |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020) |
| GPU code name | GA104 | Navi 14 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 12 January 2021 (3 years ago) | 11 December 2019 (4 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $599 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 6144 | 1536 |
| Core clock speed | 780 MHz | 1187 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1245 MHz | 1757 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 17,400 million | 6,400 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | 125 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 239.0 | 168.7 |
| Floating-point processing power | 15.3 TFLOPS | 5.398 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 96 | 32 |
| TMUs | 192 | 96 |
| Tensor Cores | 192 | no data |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 48 | no data |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | large | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 384.0 GB/s | 224.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x HDMI 2.0b |
| HDMI | - | + |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | 6.7 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 12 January 2021 | 11 December 2019 |
| Chip lithography | 8 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | 125 Watt |
RTX 3080 Max-Q has an age advantage of 1 year, and 56.3% lower power consumption.
Pro W5500X, on the other hand, has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q and Radeon Pro W5500X. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q is a notebook card while Radeon Pro W5500X is a workstation one.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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