NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon RX 540
            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
            
                $999
            
        
    
            AMD Radeon RX 540
            
                
            
        
    | 10752 Shaders 16GB GDDR7 2617MHz | 512 Shaders 2GB GDDR5 1219MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 1.8 PFLOPS FP4 Tensor Sparse | Peak AI Performance 1.25 TFLOPS FP16 | 
| FP32 56.28 TFLOPS | FP32 1.25 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 56.28 TFLOPS | FP16 1.25 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor PCIe Card 2.1-Slots | Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | 
| TDP 360W | TDP Unknown | 
| Power Connectors - - - 1x 16-Pin 12VHPWR | - - - - - | 
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal N/A 0% | 
| Peak AI
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                                            1.8 PFLOPS
                                         
                                            FP4 Tensor Sparse
                                         | Peak AI
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                                            1.25 TFLOPS
                                         
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                                            FP4
                                         
                                            900.42 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            1.8 PFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor Sparse
                                            
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                                            FP8
                                         
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                                            450.21 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            900.42 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            225.1 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            450.21 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP32 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
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                                            FP16
                                         
                                            56.28 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            225.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            450.21 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            112.55 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP32 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            225.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP32 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
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                                            1.25 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            FP32
                                         
                                            56.28 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            1.25 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            FP64
                                         
                                            880 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            FP64
                                         
                                            80 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            BF16
                                         
                                            56.28 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            112.55 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor
                                            
                                         
                                            225.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor Sparse
                                            
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                                            TF32
                                         
                                            56.28 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor
                                            
                                         
                                            112.55 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor Sparse
                                            
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                                            INT8
                                         
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                                            450.21 TOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor
                                            
                                         
                                            900.42 TOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor Sparse
                                            
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                                            INT32
                                         
                                            56.28 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            Ray Tracing
                                         
                                            170.7 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            293.104 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            19.504 GPixel/s
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| Texture
                                            Fillrate 
                                            879.312 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
                                            Fillrate 
                                            39.008 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerNVIDIA | ManufacturerAMD | 
| Chip DesignerNVIDIA | Chip DesignerAMD | 
| ArchitectureBlackwell | ArchitectureGCN 4 | 
| FamilyGeForce 50 | FamilyRadeon RX 500 | 
| Codename NV193 GB203 Variant GB203-400-A1 | Codename Lexa Polaris 12 Variant Polaris 12 XL | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 1/6/2025 | Release Date 4/18/2017 | 
| Foundry TSMC - | Foundry GlobalFoundries - | 
| Fabrication Node 4NP - | Fabrication Node 14LPP - | 
| Die Size 378 mm² - | Die Size 103 mm² - | 
| Transistor Count 45.6 Billion - | Transistor Count 2.2 Billion - | 
| Transistor Density 120.63M/mm² - | Transistor Density 21.36M/mm² - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 10752 Shaders - | Shading Units 512 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 336 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 32 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 112 ROPs | Render Output Units 16 ROPs | 
| Tensor Cores 336 T-Cores | - - | 
| Ray-Tracing Cores 84 RT-Cores | - - | 
| Streaming Multiprocessors 84 SMs | - - | 
| - - | Compute Units 8 CUs | 
| - - | - - | 
| Graphics Processing Clusters 7 GPCs | - - | 
| - - 2300MHz Base 2617MHz | - - 1124MHz Base 1219MHz | 
| - - | - - | 
| L1 64KB/SM Tex 128KB/SM - - | L1 - - 16KB/CU - | 
| L2 64MB Shared | L2 512KB Shared | 
| - - - | - - - | 
| 16GB GDDR7 - | 2GB GDDR5 - | 
| Bus Width 256Bit | Bus Width 128Bit | 
| Clock 1875MHz Transfer Rate 30GT/s Bandwidth 960GB/s | Clock 1500MHz Transfer Rate 6GT/s Bandwidth 96GB/s | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP 360W | TDP Unknown | 
| Temp 88°C Max | - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 2.1 - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | - - - - - - - - - - 1x DVI-D Dual-Link - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.0 - - - | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 5120x2880 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 165Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - FreeSync - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Not Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 4 | Multi Monitor Support 3 | 
| Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | Content Protection HDCP 2.2 | 
| Model 2x NVENC 9 | Model VCE 3.4 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model 2x NVDEC 6 | Model UVD 6.3 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_3 | Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_0 | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.3 | OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.1 Vulkan 1.3 | 
| Shader Model 6.8 CUDA 12.8 - - PureVideo HD VP13 VDPAU Feature Set M | Shader Model 6.7 - - GFX 8 - - - - | 
| - - - 2x Fans | - - - 1x Fan | 
| Power Connectors - - - - - - 1x 16-Pin 12VHPWR | - - - - - - - - | 
| Slots Required 2.1 PCIe Version 5.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 3.0 PCIe Lanes 8 | 
| - - - - | Multi GPU Support Supported Type CrossFire XDMA | 
| Height 137 mm (5.39 in) Width 304 mm (11.97 in) Depth 42 mm (1.65 in) | Height 110 mm (4.33 in) Width 145 mm (5.71 in) Depth 37 mm (1.46 in) | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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