Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G
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PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G and the PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT and has 1408 texture shaders and 22 execution units.

PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, which has 16384 shaders and 128 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G GPU PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Navi 14 XTX GPU Chip AD102-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Ada Lovelace
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 128
1408 Shader 16384
32 Render Output Units 176
88 Texture Units 512
0 Raytracing Cores 128

Memory

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan can access 24 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 1008 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6X
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.313 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1008 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.607 GHz. The base frequency of the PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan is 2.235 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 2.235 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 2.520 GHz
1.74 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G is 135 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan has a TDP of 450 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors.

135 W TDP 450 W
-- TDP (up) 450 W
95 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
41 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G.

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
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 Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G is 233 mm long, 122 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan is 329 mm long, 141 mm high and 70 mm wide.

233 mm Length 329 mm
122 mm Height 141 mm
40 mm Width 70 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 4 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G was released in Q3/2019 at a price of 169 $ (Reference).

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan was introduced in Q1/2023 at a price of 1,599 $ (Reference).

11295-01-20G Part-no VCG409024TFXPPB
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2023
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,599 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 5 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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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