AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Price

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$ 349.00

$ 149.99

$ 199.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

97% significantly better overall score

1317 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

21 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

265.26 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24898 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23619 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

1740 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1785 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

75 W

73% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

106% significantly higher pixel rate

28.56 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

184% significantly higher texture rate

57.12 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

184% significantly better floating point performance

1.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

175% significantly more shading units

512

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

172nd of 586

242nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2022 June

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 XT vs GeForce GTX 1630 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1630 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1630 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly 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 GeForce GTX 1630 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500 XT over the GeForce GTX 1630.