NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 15.82 slightly less expensive
$ 299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
94% significantly better overall score
2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
66 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
85% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4717 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
582% significantly higher Blender score
339.58 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
40204 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
34601 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
44390 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
54355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
1670 MHz
26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
1845 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
200% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
60% significantly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
150 W
13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
44% significantly higher pixel rate
59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
22% slightly higher texture rate
162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
145% significantly better floating point performance
5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
154% significantly more shading units
1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
27% slightly more texture mapping units
88

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
166th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5500 benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 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 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, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 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 5500 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 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 over the Radeon RX 5500.

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