AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 GB, 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

$ 299.99
$ 199.96
$ 100.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points
12% slightly better overall score
2401 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
51 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
30 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
330.93 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
28016 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
33588 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
29387 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
32919 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz
59% significantly higher core clock speed
1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz
77% significantly higher boost clock speed
1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
8 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
5% slightly higher memory bandwidth
211.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
Identical
150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s
66.43 Gigapixels/s
12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s
22% slightly higher texture rate
132.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS
22% slightly better floating point performance
4.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
2048
45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
128
45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 593
184th of 593

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

Radeon RX 5500 vs Quadro M5000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 GPU is faster than the Quadro M5000 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 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 Radeon RX 5500 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro M5000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 5500 and the Quadro M5000 have an identical TDP. 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 Quadro M5000.

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