AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 550X 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K5000M

Price

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$ 254.31

$ 75.64 slightly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

464 points

510 points

9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

12 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

7 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

7 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12373 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5107 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11245 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5107 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

706 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

112 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

100% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

16.83 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s

67.31 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1344

162% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

180% 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

335th of 586

326th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 550X vs Quadro K5000M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 550X beats the Quadro K5000M in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 550X has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 550X has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Quadro K5000M at 100 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 550X over the Quadro K5000M.