Radeon RX 5950 and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5950

GeForce RTX 5080

Architecture

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

Navi 21

GB203

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

2025 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1535 MHz

2520 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

21,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4864

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

466.6

846.7

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12.0 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

9.1

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3