AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 33.76 slightly less expensive

$ 333.75

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

2754 points

1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

57 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

44 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

35 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

545.79 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39047 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

53345 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

18723 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41166 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

67% significantly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

1089 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

104.5 Gigapixels/s

77% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

209.1 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

6.69 TFLOPS

28% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

3072

118% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

118% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

163rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2015 March

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 TITAN X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX TITAN X GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming.

Our database shows that 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX TITAN X at 250 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 GTX TITAN X over the Radeon RX 5500.