AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

4562 points

73% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

112 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

57 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

79 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

44 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

2352.59 points

367% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

92420 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33781 points

71210 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

84300 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

82804 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

78% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

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

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

15% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

110% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

3840

172% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

36% 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

173rd of 597

110th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2021 January

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 RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5500 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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 GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.