GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking231not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation49.10no data
Power efficiency13.14no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 14GA103S
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 December 2019 (4 years ago)25 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores14087424
Core clock speed1607 MHz585 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate162.4261.0
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS16.7 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs88232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s384.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2019 25 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 80 Watt

RX 5500 XT has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 62.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 XT and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q is a notebook one.


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