XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (RDNA 1) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Turing) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

GPU

The XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra has the Navi 10 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 1 architecture.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is based on the graphics chip TU104, which comes from the Turing architecture.
XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra GPU MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Navi 10 XT GPU Chip TU104
RDNA 1 Architecture Turing
40 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
2560 Shader 2944
64 Render Output Units 64
160 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The graphics memory of the XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 14.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X 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 448 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

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

1.730 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.980 GHz Boost Clock 1.860 GHz
1.87 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 225 W.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X has 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 260 W.

225 W TDP 260 W
335 W TDP (up) 310 W
99 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X has 0 -- main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

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

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

Dimensions

The XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

293 mm Length 305 mm
130 mm Height 169 mm
55 mm Width 42 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1365 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc II Ultra has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q3/2019.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X came on the market in Q2/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2019 Release date Q2/2019
419 $ Launch Price 849 $
7 nm Structure size 12 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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