Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 34 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | 92 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 63.91 | no data |
| Power efficiency | 25.03 | no data |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) | RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020) |
| GPU code name | AD106 | Navi 14 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 18 May 2023 (1 year ago) | 7 October 2019 (5 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $499 | no data |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4352 | 1408 |
| Core clock speed | 2310 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2535 MHz | 1845 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 22,900 million | 6,400 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 165 Watt | 110 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 344.8 | 162.4 |
| Floating-point processing power | 22.06 TFLOPS | 5.196 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| TMUs | 136 | 88 |
| Tensor Cores | 136 | no data |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 34 | no data |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Length | 240 mm | 180 mm |
| Width | 2-slot | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin | 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 2250 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 288.0 GB/s | 224.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
| HDMI | + | + |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.5 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2.131 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 18 May 2023 | 7 October 2019 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | 4 GB |
| Chip lithography | 5 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 165 Watt | 110 Watt |
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.
RX 5500 OEM, on the other hand, has 50% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB and Radeon RX 5500 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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