MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
vs
XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X and the XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and has 2944 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy is based on AMD Radeon RX 570, which has 2048 shaders and 32 execution units.
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X GPU XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Based on AMD Radeon RX 570
TU104 GPU Chip Polaris 20 XL
Turing Architecture GCN 4
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
2944 Shader 2048
64 Render Output Units 32
184 Texture Units 128
46 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X clocks in the base with up to 1.515 GHz. The base frequency of the XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy is 1.168 GHz.

1.515 GHz Base Clock 1.168 GHz
1.860 GHz Boost Clock 1.284 GHz
1.71 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is 260 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy has a TDP of 200 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

260 W TDP 200 W
310 W TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X has a total of 0 -- fans.

The XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

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

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X.

The XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is 305 mm long, 169 mm high and 42 mm wide.

The XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy is 243 mm long, 124 mm high and 40 mm wide.

305 mm Length 243 mm
169 mm Height 124 mm
42 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1365 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X was released in Q2/2019 at a price of 849 $.

The XFX Radeon RX 570 RS 4GB Black Edition Only at Best Buy was introduced in Q3/2017 at a price of 169 $.

-- Part-no RX-570P4DFDR
Q2/2019 Release date Q3/2017
849 $ Launch Price 169 $
12 nm Structure size 14 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 2080 Sea Hawk EK X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
8 GB GDDR6
41 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
8 GB GDDR6
72 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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