EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING
vs
MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Turing) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (RDNA 1) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING has the TU104 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Turing architecture.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G is based on the graphics chip Navi 14 XTX, which comes from the RDNA 1 architecture.
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING GPU MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
TU104 GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
Turing Architecture RDNA 1
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2944 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 32
184 Texture Units 88
46 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 14.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.515 GHz Base Clock 1.647 GHz
1.860 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
1.71 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.73 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 210 W.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 130 W.

210 W TDP 130 W
250 W TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is equipped with a total of 0 -- main fans.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

-- Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 39 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED MSI Mystic Light

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 8 Lanes interface.

291 mm Length 247 mm
159 mm Height 128 mm
-- Width 47 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 869 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING has been manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers since Q1/2019.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G came on the market in Q3/2019 and will have a structure width of 7 nanometers manufactured.

08G-P4-2289-KR Part-no --
Q1/2019 Release date Q3/2019
799 $ Launch Price 169 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G
8 GB GDDR6
20 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 8G
8 GB GDDR6
38 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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