AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, 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
$ 269.99
$ 79.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points
10996 points
322% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS
225 FPS
169 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
163 FPS
123 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
205 FPS
157 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS
90 FPS
68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points
31% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3719 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points
1584.42 points
214% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points
90142 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points
115648 points
114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz
3130 MHz
69% significantly higher boost clock speed

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
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
320 GB/s
42% much higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s
200.3 Gigapixels/s
239% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS
25.6 TFLOPS
392% significantly better floating point performance

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
128
45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586
35th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 9060 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9060 XT beats the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9060 XT over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

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