AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 349.00

$ 1470.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

33119 points

1171% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

787 FPS

731 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

382 FPS

342 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

567 FPS

518 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

318 FPS

296 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points

9236 points

88% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

11723.75 points

2228% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

318192 points

584% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

273214 points

406% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

2235 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

2520 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

1010 GB/s

350% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

246% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

720% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

694% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1488% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

16384

1063% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

481% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586

2nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

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 4090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 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 GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.