AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1845MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +211%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +149%

12239

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +117%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +109%

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +94%

138

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +124%

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +104%

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +96%

173

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +57%

66

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +72%

102

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +25%

155

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Oct 2022

Navi

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

4864

88

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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