NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points

164% significantly better overall score

1993 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

31 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

96% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4472 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

545% significantly higher Blender score

358.91 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36948 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34067 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

38725 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

44878 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1375 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1645 MHz

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

85 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

62% significantly higher pixel rate

52.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

144.76 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

175% significantly better floating point performance

4.63 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

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

209th 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 5500M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500M in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500M 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 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 Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the Radeon RX 5500M.