AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A1000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA RTX A1000

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 299.99

$ 174.00 significantly less expensive

$ 473.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

1% slightly better overall score

2680 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

68 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

25 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon RX 5500 and the RTX A1000? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

1266.96 points

273% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

52816 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

50120 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

129% significantly higher core clock speed

727 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

1462 MHz

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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

50 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

46.78 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

54% significantly higher texture rate

105.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

167th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 vs RTX A1000 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500 graphics card is better than the RTX A1000 in our tests.

In our comparison, 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 slightly 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.

In addition, the RTX A1000 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 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 RTX A1000.