GeForce GTX 980M SLI and Radeon RX 5500 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980M SLI
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name
-
Navi 14 XTX
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
December 2019
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
1845 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
162.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12_1
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-