Radeon RX 5800: specs and benchmarks
Summary
This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 5800: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 23 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data (2024 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 5800's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 5800's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3072 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Boost clock speed | 1735 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 275 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 333.1 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 10.66 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 192 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 5800 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 5800: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 448.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 5800. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 5800, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 |
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