AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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
$ 294.49
$ 54.51 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points
8206 points
215% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS
192 FPS
136 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
95 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
139 FPS
91 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS
75 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points
55% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3149 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points
3690.41 points
632% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points
126840 points
172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points
120026 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
2280 MHz
41% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz
2497 MHz
35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
448 GB/s
100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W
11% slightly lower TDP
145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s
119.9 Gigapixels/s
103% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s
299.6 Gigatexels/s
84% significantly higher texture rate

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

88
120
36% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
48
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

171st of 586
51st 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
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

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 5060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

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