NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M 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

6815 points

241% significantly better overall score

1993 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

31 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

161% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4472 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

736% significantly higher Blender score

358.91 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

225% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36948 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34067 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

38725 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

44878 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1375 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1645 MHz

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

448 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

85 W

135% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

153% significantly higher pixel rate

52.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

74% significantly higher texture rate

144.76 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

249% significantly better floating point performance

4.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

245% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

72% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

209th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

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 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a slightly 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 GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti over the Radeon RX 5500M.