AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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

$ 225.00
$ 69.49 significantly less expensive
$ 294.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

621 points
8206 points
1221% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
192 FPS
177 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS
95 FPS
82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
139 FPS
123 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
75 FPS
66 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1190 points
3149 points
164% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12342 points
126840 points
927% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16237 points
120026 points
639% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz
2280 MHz
107% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1183 MHz
2497 MHz
111% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s
448 GB/s
300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
190% significantly lower TDP
145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.93 Gigapixels/s
119.9 Gigapixels/s
533% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

37.86 Gigatexels/s
299.6 Gigatexels/s
691% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
3840
650% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
120
274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
48
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

307th of 586
51st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 550 vs GeForce RTX 5060 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 beats the Radeon RX 550 in gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 is faster than the Radeon RX 550.

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