Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GT 1030

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

120 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 5500 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GT 1030
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsGP108 (GP108-300-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs14 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs74 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs1,800 million
Shaders1408vs384
Compute Units22vs3
Core clock1670 MHzvs1228 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs88vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GT 1030
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GT 1030
TDP150 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs17 May 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better