GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
4480 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1845MHz vs 1725MHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+290%
20310
Radeon RX 5500 XT
5196
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3070
+180%
13641
Radeon RX 5500 XT
4858
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3070
+194%
6762
Radeon RX 5500 XT
2298
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
+130%
53
Radeon RX 5500 XT
23
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
+120%
95
Radeon RX 5500 XT
43
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
+102%
144
Radeon RX 5500 XT
71
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
+145%
81
Radeon RX 5500 XT
33
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
+120%
141
Radeon RX 5500 XT
64
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
+113%
188
Radeon RX 5500 XT
88
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
+61%
68
Radeon RX 5500 XT
42
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
+77%
105
Radeon RX 5500 XT
59
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
+28%
159
Radeon RX 5500 XT
124
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Dec 2019
GeForce 30
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
1845 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
22
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
1408
184
TMUs
88
96
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
130W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Navi 14
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XTX
(215-0932396)
Ampere
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
6.4 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
158 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.5