AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1993 points

4534 points

127% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

112 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

57 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

78 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

44 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points

2352.59 points

555% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points

92420 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points

71210 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

84300 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points

82804 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

1703 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

5.97 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W

80 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

30% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

136% significantly better floating point performance

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

120

36% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586

111th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 January

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 5500M vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500M in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500M 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Radeon RX 5500M.