AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 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

4311 points

5962 points

38% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

89 FPS

136 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS

81 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

92 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

61 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7692 points

7879 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

619.96 points

1543.63 points

148% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

57968 points

91343 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48131 points

67503 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65528 points

91343 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

77765 points

79119 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz

88% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

1350 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

384 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.8 Gigapixels/s

15% slightly higher pixel rate

86.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.64 Gigatexels/s

259.20 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.19 TFLOPS

8.29 TFLOPS

15% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3072

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

192

33% 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

116th of 586

81st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

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 5600 XT vs Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q benchmarks

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5600 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 5600 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

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 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT.