NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500

Price

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$ 249.99

$ 50.00 slightly less expensive

$ 299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2244 points

2707 points

20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

53 FPS

60 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

41 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

37 FPS

51 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3627 points

4717 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

445.31 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38315 points

40204 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35907 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39842 points

44390 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37542 points

54355 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1485 MHz

1670 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

1845 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

128.1 GB/s

224 GB/s

74% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

53.28 Gigapixels/s

59 Gigapixels/s

10% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

93.24 Gigatexels/s

162.36 Gigatexels/s

74% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.98 TFLOPS

5.2 TFLOPS

74% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

1408

57% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

57% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon RX 5500 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500 over the GeForce GTX 1650.