AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 98.48

$ 201.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

843% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

763% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

596% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

753% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

705% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

1948% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2400 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

875% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

1036% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

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

224 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

64 W

134% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

597% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

379% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

266% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

175% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

384th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GTX 650 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5500 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500 over the GeForce GTX 650.