Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GTX 560

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
GeForce GTX 560
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560

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 GTX 560

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 560
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsGF114 (GF114-325-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs40 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders1408vs336
Compute Units22vs7
Core clock1670 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs88vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 560
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 560
TDP150 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs17 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    11.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    45.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better