NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 349.00

$ 1200.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

437% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

277 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

192 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

306% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

1056% significantly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

321% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

311% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

318% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1607 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

1845 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

317% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

130 W

169% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

221% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

242% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

584% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

645% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

272% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

171st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 5500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.