AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 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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$ 349.00

$ 289.00

$ 60.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

26% slightly better overall score

2058 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

29 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

284.61 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41242 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33958 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33781 points

33939 points

0.47% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

56001 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

13527 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33375 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32433 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

6% 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

130 W

120 W

8% 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

172nd of 586

206th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

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 XT vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB specs and performance

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

The Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 XT 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 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 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 Radeon RX 5500 XT over the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.