Radeon RX 550X vs GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 145W)
GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 111% (2497MHz vs 1183MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550X
1211
GeForce RTX 5060
+1483%
19180
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
May 2025
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1100 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
1183 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
512
Shading Units
3840
32
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
18.93 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
1211 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
1211 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
75.71 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
145W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GB206
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8