AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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Radeon RX 5700 XT compared with GeForce GTX 1080

	AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1080
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	May 2016
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	Pascal
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	2,560
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,905 MHz or 1,980 MHz	1,733 MHz or 1,759 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	40 compute units; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs; 10.3 billion transistors. Main figures and photo describe the standard reference card, pictured as MSI's RX 5700 XT 8G.	GP104; 7.2 billion transistors; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs. Main specifications and photo describe the original Founders Edition; the later 11 Gbps memory version is represented by MSI's GAMING+ 8G in its default Gaming mode.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	16 nm FinFET
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	No dedicated RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	No Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	No NVIDIA DLSS
Base clock
Base clock	Standard edition 1605 MHz base and 1755 MHz game clock; 50th Anniversary edition 1680 MHz base, 1830 MHz game clock and 1980 MHz boost.	1607 MHz (original Founders Edition); MSI GAMING+ 8G has 1620 MHz base and 1759 MHz boost in Gaming mode, 1632/1771 MHz in OC mode and 1607/1733 MHz in Silent mode.
Cache
Cache	–	2048 KB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5X
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit or –	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s or –	320 GB/s or –
Memory detail
Memory detail	Standard edition 14 Gbps GDDR6. AMD's launch table confirms the Anniversary edition's 8 GB GDDR6 but does not publish its bus, bandwidth or board power; those configuration fields are omitted independently.	Original 10 Gbps GDDR5X; MSI GAMING+ 8G lists 11010 MHz effective memory speed. Its bandwidth is not published in the maker's datasheet and is omitted from that configuration.
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	225 W or –	180 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G). AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4a support.	3 × DisplayPort 1.4, 1 × HDMI 2.0b and 1 × dual-link DVI-D; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2 (MSI Founders Edition). NVIDIA's launch table calls the DVI connector DVI-I; MSI's actual card specification identifies DVI-D.
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G)	7680 × 4320 (MSI Founders Edition)
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin (standard)	1 × 8-pin (Founders Edition); 1 × 6-pin and 1 × 8-pin (MSI GAMING+ 8G)
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W (standard)	500 W
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 40 mm and 1110 g (MSI standard reference-design RX 5700 XT 8G)	269 × 111 × 40 mm and 1100 g (MSI Founders Edition); 277 × 140 × 42 mm and 1100 g (MSI GAMING+ 8G)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	HEVC 10-bit encode and decode