NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1845MHz vs 1680MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +24%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 +52%

7486

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4901

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +4%

24

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +25%

54

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +14%

81

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +30%

43

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +18%

76

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +25%

110

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +21%

51

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +11%

66

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +17%

146

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 20

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

1920

Shading Units

1408

120

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Navi 14

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Turing

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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