AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 299.99

$ 289.00

$ 10.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

31% slightly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

29 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33939 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1708 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

123 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

3.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

22% slightly more shading units

1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

22% 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

166th of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in gaming.

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

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 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 Radeon RX 5500 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.