Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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

93 points

8261 points

8782% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

194 FPS

191 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

95 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

140 FPS

138 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

75 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

233 points

3149 points

1251% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2265 points

126840 points

5499% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3437 points

120026 points

3392% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2280 MHz

659% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

850 MHz

2497 MHz

193% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

866% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.55 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

4601% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

1368% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

3840

1900% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

516th of 593

49th of 593

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

HD 5500 vs GeForce RTX 5060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is faster than the HD 5500 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5060 has a significantly 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 GeForce RTX 5060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the HD 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5060 at 145 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 5060 over the HD 5500.