NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3523 points

30% slightly better overall score

2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

437% significantly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

54355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1670 MHz

88% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1845 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

63% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

63% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5500 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon RX 5500.