GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 5500M

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Radeon RX 5500M (23/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 64.0 Average WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 13.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Fire Strike 72432 12813
Night Raid 195813 42057
Port Royal 26127
Solar Bay 187525
Time Spy 36299 4287
Wild Life Extreme 85218 6440

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
CUDA 8.9
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes No
Vulkan 1.3 1.2

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
1080p High 255 48
1080p Ultra 217 36
1440p Ultra 177 24
4K Ultra 106 13
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 44372715
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 70483316
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 302814-
Far Cry 6 203179170104 52463115
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 72383215
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 3020169
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 29251710
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 55472816
The Witcher 3 292268191101 48392111

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 14009
Face Detection (HP) 78111 8964
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 2845
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 3023
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 8505
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 1920
Object Detection (SP) 21186 3032
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 29278
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 58664
Text Classification (SP) 4074 1142

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 89.3 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 2.74 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 50.3 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 1.91 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 5898.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 159.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 1.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 Navi 14
Launch price (MSRP) $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -AMD Ryzen 5 5600Hor above
Released September 20, 2022 October 7, 2019
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 -Radeon RX 6500M
Vendor Nvidia Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Base Clock 2235 MHz 1375 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 1645 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 22
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 32
Shading Units 16384 1408
Tensor Cores 512 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 88

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Bus 384-bit 128-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
DirectX 11 323 FPS 36 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 30 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 414
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 2339 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Die Size 609 mm² 158 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 85 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 6.4 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 40.51 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 53 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 145 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 5500M
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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