MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G
vs
XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.62 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.46 TFLOPS.

The XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G GPU XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
TU106 GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
Turing Architecture RDNA 1
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 32
144 Texture Units 88
36 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

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 MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G has a turbo clock of 1.620 GHz. The turbo frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro is 1.845 GHz.

1.410 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.620 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.72 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 89 °C.

The XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

175 W TDP 130 W
-- TDP (up) --
89 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 41 dB

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

295 mm Length 281 mm
140 mm Height 145 mm
-- Width 44 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1485 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G was released in Q4/2018.

The XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

-- Part-no RX-55XT8DFD6
Q4/2018 Release date Q3/2019
499 $ (Reference) 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)

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G
8 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G
8 GB GDDR6
36 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G
8 GB GDDR6
54 fps (avg)

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)

XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro
8 GB GDDR6
20 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro
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)

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G
8 GB GDDR6
54 fps (avg)
XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro
8 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G
8 GB GDDR6
95 fps (avg)
XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro
8 GB GDDR6
56 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING 8G
8 GB GDDR6
132 fps (avg)
XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro XFX Radeon RX 5500 XT Thicc II Pro
8 GB GDDR6
79 fps (avg)

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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