AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (2520MHz vs 1845MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +346%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jan 2025

Navi

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

4608

88

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GB206

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

GB206

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

0 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

158 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

130W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

9.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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