PNY RTX A5500
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PNY RTX A5500 and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PNY RTX A5500 is based on the NVIDIA RTX A5500 and has 10240 texture shaders and 80 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, which has 2048 shaders and 16 execution units.
PNY RTX A5500 GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GA102 GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
Ampere Architecture Maxwell 2.0
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
10240 Shader 2048
96 Render Output Units 64
320 Texture Units 128
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PNY RTX A5500 has 24 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 768 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 227 GB/s.

24 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.775 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.1 Gbps
768 GB/s Memory bandwidth 227 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The PNY RTX A5500 clocks in the base with up to 1.170 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING is 1.266 GHz.

1.170 GHz Base Clock 1.266 GHz
1.695 GHz Boost Clock 1.367 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.34 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PNY RTX A5500 is 230 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING has a TDP of 165 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

230 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PNY RTX A5500 has a total of 1 Radial fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 65 mm Fan 1 3 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 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 PNY RTX A5500.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
4x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PNY RTX A5500 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

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 No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The PNY RTX A5500 is 267 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING is 279 mm long, 121 mm high and 42 mm wide.

267 mm Length 279 mm
112 mm Height 121 mm
-- Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The PNY RTX A5500 was released in Q1/2022 at a price of 3,600 $.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME GAMING was introduced in Q3/2014 at a price of 699 $.

VCNRTXA5500-PB Part-no GV-N980XTREME-4GD
Q1/2022 Release date Q3/2014
3,600 $ Launch Price 699 $
8 nm Structure size 28 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)

PNY RTX A5500 PNY RTX A5500
24 GB GDDR6
10616

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

PNY RTX A5500 PNY RTX A5500
24 GB GDDR6
4274

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.

1920x1080 (1080p)

PNY RTX A5500 PNY RTX A5500
24 GB GDDR6
204 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

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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