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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

Radeon RX 5500 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Navi 14
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
TU116

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5500 XT with 1408 shaders against the 8 months older GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER that utilizes 20 pipelines and 1280 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
4 GB GDDR6
VS
4 GB GDDR6
46.7
(Average)
Value Index
22.1
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1650 SUPER over RX 5500 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5500 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • 18% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.2 vs 4.4 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
  • Achieves 31% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (57K vs 43K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 5500 XT
vs
GTX 1650 SUPER

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
81
42
35
17
73
42
33
21
The Witcher 3
57
45
27
15
60
46
32
16
Counter-Strike 2
89
61
40
16
107
71
49
21
Far Cry 6
64
52
35
19
57
48
37
19
Hogwarts Legacy
37
26
19
10
33
26
22
11
CoD: Modern Warfare III
51
42
31
19
41
35
24
15
Ghost of Tsushima
35
29
20
9
32
22
20
-
Cyberpunk 2077
34
33
16
-
36
33
20
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
68
57
35
18
62
55
38
17
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 57 56
1080p Ultra 43 42
1440p Ultra 29 31
4K Ultra 14 15
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 5500 XT +1%
4416
GTX 1650 SUPER
4389
Time Spy 4852 4691
Fire Strike 14381 12267
Wild Life Extreme 9510 9634
Night Raid 60060 60033
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 5500 XT
43831
GTX 1650 SUPER +31%
57455
Background Blur 93.3 img/sec 106.6 img/sec
Face Detection 48.3 img/sec 58.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.68 Gpixels/sec 1.98 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.43 Gpixels/sec 2.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.99 Gpixels/sec 2.79 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.48 Gpixels/sec 0.75 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 144.1 Gpixels/sec 248.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5990 FPS 7783.2 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 5500 XT
9047
GTX 1650 SUPER +13%
10196
G2D Mark 775 749
DirectX 11 54 FPS 73 FPS
DirectX 12 40 FPS 45 FPS
GPU Compute 4314 Ops/s 4455 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 4145 & 7469 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 5500 XT
502.97
GTX 1650 SUPER +9%
546.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 165 & 108 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 5500 XT +11%
9492
GTX 1650 SUPER
8531
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 5500 XT +55%
11381
GTX 1650 SUPER
7319
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5500 XT +21%
7407
GTX 1650 SUPER
6132
Image Classification (SP) 3640 3533
Image Segmentation (HP) 4585 5144
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11173 7927
Face Detection (HP) 12599 8860
Pose Estimation (Q) 39745 30433
Text Classification (SP) 1739 1622
Machine Translation (HP) 3457 2754
Object Detection (SP) 3801 4278
Depth Estimation (Q) 18563 15240
Style Transfer (SP) 83214 66527
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5500 XT and GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released December 12, 2019 April 23, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $169 $159
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 14 TU116
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1650 - Radeon RX 5500 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 6500 XT -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9400 or above - Intel Core i5 9400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (82nd and 81st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1607 MHz 1530 MHz
Boost Clock 1845 MHz 1725 MHz
Shading Units 1408 1280
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 59 GPixel/s 55 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 162 GTexel/s 138 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5500 XT +18%
5.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1650 SUPER
4.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 130 W 100 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 12 nm
Die Size 158 mm² 284 mm²
Transistor Count 6 billion 6 billion
Transistor Density 37.97 MTr/mm² 21.13 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 5500 XT +17%
224 GB/s
GTX 1650 SUPER
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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