AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 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

$ 349.00
$ 424.49 significantly less expensive
$ 773.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points
16263 points
524% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS
383 FPS
327 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
188 FPS
148 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
278 FPS
230 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS
154 FPS
132 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points
5035 points
2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points
6656.46 points
1222% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points
205515 points
341% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points
188957 points
250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
2310 MHz
43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz
2610 MHz
41% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
12 GiB
49% significantly more memory

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
504.2 GB/s
125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W
119% significantly lower TDP
285 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s
208.8 Gigapixels/s
253% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s
626.4 Gigatexels/s
285% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS
40.09 TFLOPS
670% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
7680
445% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
240
172% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
80
150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

171st of 586
15th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 5500 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti beats the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti at 285 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 GeForce RTX 4070 Ti over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

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