AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

5962 points

128% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

136 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

81 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

92 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

61 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points

7879 points

60% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

1543.63 points

206% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

91343 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33781 points

67503 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

91343 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

79119 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

167% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

1350 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

384 GB/s

71% 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

86.4 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

259.20 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

8.29 TFLOPS

59% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

3072

118% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

118% 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

171st of 586

81st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2019 May

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 Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q benchmarks

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 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 Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.