AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A1000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A1000

Price

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$ 349.00

$ 124.99 significantly less expensive

$ 473.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

2680 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

68 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

25 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

1266.96 points

151% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

52816 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

50120 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

121% significantly higher core clock speed

727 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

1462 MHz

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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

50 W

160% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

46.78 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

54% significantly higher texture rate

105.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

22% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586

167th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2024 April

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 RTX A1000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A1000 beats the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming performance.

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.

In addition, the RTX A1000 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A1000 over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.