AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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Radeon RX 5700 XT compared with GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

	AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	July 2019
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	Turing
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	3,072
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,905 MHz or 1,980 MHz	1,815 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.	NVIDIA reference specifications. The photo shows PNY's stock-clock 8 GB Blower, whose cooler differs from the Founders Edition geometry below.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	Hardware RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation
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.	1650 MHz base; 1815 MHz boost
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit or –	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s or –	496 GB/s
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.	15.5 Gbps GDDR6
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	225 W or –	250 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.	NVIDIA lists DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.0b, up to 4 displays and HDCP 2.2. Its feature list includes USB-C while the connector table omits it; the pictured PNY Blower specifies 3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b without USB-C. Check the board manufacturer for its connectors.
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G)	7680 × 4320; DisplayPort supports 4K 144 Hz or 8K 60 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin (standard)	1 × PCIe 6-pin and 1 × PCIe 8-pin (reference)
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W (standard)	650 W, based on NVIDIA's 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7 test system
Slot width
Slot width	–	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 40 mm and 1110 g (MSI standard reference-design RX 5700 XT 8G)	266.74 × 115.7 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	Turing NVENC; no hardware AV1 encoding