Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameTU106BNavi 14
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 June 2020 (4 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores23041408
Core clock speed900 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHz1845 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate162.0162.4
Floating-point processing power5.184 TFLOPS5.196 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs14488
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data180 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth352.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 June 2020 7 October 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 8 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 5500 OEM, on the other hand, has a 71.4% more advanced lithography process, and 4.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon RX 5500 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5500 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM
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