AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Comparison

The AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 occupy opposite ends of the GPU spectrum, and the benchmark data reflects that chasm. The Radeon Pro 5500 XT, an end-of-life mobile-class part from 2020, delivers an average benchmark score of 45,384, while the RTX 5070, an active desktop flagship from 2025, posts an average of 40,377 – a figure dragged down by its inclusion of legacy DirectX 9 and 10 tests. The RTX 5070 wins both head-to-head compute benchmarks decisively, but the Radeon Pro 5500 XT holds a higher percentile ranking (84th vs. 82nd) due to its narrower, more consistent test set. This comparison is less about close competition and more about contrasting design philosophies: a power-efficient integrated GPU versus a high-throughput discrete card with dedicated ray tracing and tensor hardware.

Where Each One Wins

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 wins in every scenario where raw compute throughput or modern graphics features matter. In Geekbench OpenCL, it scores 172,660 versus the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s 41,772 – a 75.8% advantage. In Geekbench Vulkan, the margin grows to 77.9%, with the RTX 5070 scoring 178,923 against 39,601. These are not close contests; the RTX 5070 delivers over four times the performance in both APIs. The RTX 5070 also brings hardware-accelerated ray tracing (48 RT cores) and tensor processing (192 tensor cores), enabling features the Radeon Pro 5500 XT simply cannot offer. Its 12 GB of GDDR7 memory with 672.0 GB/s bandwidth provides over three times the memory throughput of the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s 8 GB GDDR6 at 224.0 GB/s.

The AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT wins in situational efficiency and integration. As an IGP (integrated graphics processor) with no power connectors and a 125 W TDP, it requires no additional power cabling, whereas the RTX 5070 demands a 1x 16-pin connector and a 600 W suggested PSU. The Radeon Pro 5500 XT also holds a higher percentile rank among all GPUs (84th) than the RTX 5070 (82nd), suggesting its benchmark performance is more consistently above the median. In the narrow field of Geekbench scores, the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s average of 45,384 places it within 1.3% of the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation and 0.5% of the RTX 5090 Mobile – strong company for a chip from 2020. The RTX 5070’s average of 40,377, by contrast, sits close to the AMD Radeon Pro 580 (0.1% delta) and the AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 (0.8% delta), indicating its score is pulled down by older DirectX tests.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU is faster in Geekbench Vulkan?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 wins decisively with a score of 178,923 versus the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s 39,601, a delta of 77.9% in NVIDIA’s favor.

Q: Does the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT have ray tracing cores?

A: No. The FACT PACK lists no RT cores for the Radeon Pro 5500 XT, while the RTX 5070 includes 48 dedicated ray tracing cores.

Q: What is the memory configuration difference?

A: The Radeon Pro 5500 XT has 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 224.0 GB/s bandwidth. The RTX 5070 has 12 GB of GDDR7 on a 192-bit bus with 672.0 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: Which card has a higher transistor density?

A: The RTX 5070’s GB205 chip achieves 118.3 million transistors per mm² on a 5 nm process, versus the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s 40.5 million per mm² on a 7 nm process.

Q: How do their average benchmark scores compare?

A: The Radeon Pro 5500 XT averages 45,384 across its three Geekbench tests, while the RTX 5070 averages 40,377 across ten tests including older Passmark DirectX 9 and 10 workloads.

Q: What is the RTX 5070’s launch MSRP?

A: The launch MSRP is 549 USD.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The only two directly comparable benchmarks in the FACT PACK are Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan, and the RTX 5070 dominates both. In OpenCL, the RTX 5070 scores 172,660 against the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s 41,772, resulting in a delta of -75.8% from NVIDIA’s perspective – meaning the Radeon Pro 5500 XT achieves less than a quarter of the RTX 5070’s performance. The Vulkan test is even more lopsided: 178,923 for the RTX 5070 versus 39,601 for the Radeon Pro 5500 XT, a 77.9% gap. These deltas reflect the fundamental architectural leap between the two. The RTX 5070’s FP32 throughput of 30.87 TFLOPS is over five times the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s 5.398 TFLOPS, and its texture rate of 482.3 GTexel/s dwarfs the Radeon’s 168.7 GTexel/s.

The Radeon Pro 5500 XT does not win a single head-to-head benchmark in this comparison – winsA equals 0, while winsB equals 2. However, the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s individual Geekbench scores are internally consistent: 54,779 in Metal, 41,772 in OpenCL, and 39,601 in Vulkan. The Metal score is notably higher than the others, suggesting the Radeon Pro 5500 XT is optimized for Apple’s API, consistent with its "Radeon Pro Mac" generation label. The RTX 5070 shows a broader performance envelope across its ten benchmarks, ranging from 108 in Passmark DirectX 12 to 178,923 in Geekbench Vulkan. Its Passmark G3D score of 29,137 and GPU compute score of 15,787 indicate strong general-purpose performance, while the low DirectX 12 score of 108 is an outlier that likely reflects a specific workload incompatibility rather than a general weakness.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs differ across nearly every measurable specification. The Radeon Pro 5500 XT uses the Navi 14 chip on a 7 nm TSMC process, while the RTX 5070 uses the GB205 chip on a 5 nm TSMC process. Transistor counts are starkly different: 6,400 million for the Radeon Pro 5500 XT versus 31,100 million for the RTX 5070, on die sizes of 158 mm² and 263 mm² respectively. Clock speeds favor NVIDIA substantially – the RTX 5070 boosts to 2512 MHz versus the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s 1757 MHz boost. Memory configurations diverge completely: 8 GB GDDR6 at 224.0 GB/s on a 128-bit bus for AMD, versus 12 GB GDDR7 at 672.0 GB/s on a 192-bit bus for NVIDIA.

The compute resources are equally lopsided. The RTX 5070 has 6,144 shading units, 192 TMUs, and 80 ROPs, compared to 1,536 shading units, 96 TMUs, and 32 ROPs for the Radeon Pro 5500 XT. The RTX 5070 also adds 48 RT cores and 192 tensor cores, which the Radeon Pro 5500 XT lacks entirely. Pixel and texture rates reflect these differences: 201.0 GPixel/s and 482.3 GTexel/s for NVIDIA versus 56.22 GPixel/s and 168.7 GTexel/s for AMD. Power consumption is 250 W for the RTX 5070 versus 125 W for the Radeon Pro 5500 XT, with the former requiring a 1x 16-pin connector and 600 W suggested PSU, while the latter is an IGP with no power connectors and a 300 W suggested PSU. The bus interface also differs: PCIe 5.0 x16 for NVIDIA versus PCIe 4.0 x8 for AMD. Physical dimensions are only listed for the RTX 5070 (245 mm length, 115 mm height, 40 mm width), as the Radeon Pro 5500 XT is an integrated part.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap between RDNA 1.0 and Blackwell 2.0 is immense. The Radeon Pro 5500 XT, built on AMD’s first-generation RDNA architecture, has no dedicated ray tracing or tensor cores, relying entirely on its 1,536 shader units for all compute. Its FP16 performance of 10.80 TFLOPS is achieved via a 2:1 ratio, meaning it runs half the FP32 throughput. In contrast, the RTX 5070’s Blackwell 2.0 architecture delivers full-rate FP16 at 30.87 TFLOPS (1:1 ratio), matching its FP32 performance. This indicates that the RTX 5070 can handle mixed-precision workloads without a throughput penalty, a critical advantage for AI and machine learning tasks that the tensor cores (192 of them) further accelerate.

The RTX 5070 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), while the Radeon Pro 5500 XT is limited to DirectX 12 (12_1). Both support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4. The RTX 5070’s display outputs include 1x HDMI 2.1b and 3x DisplayPort 2.1b, while the Radeon Pro 5500 XT has no outputs, reinforcing its IGP status. The RTX 5070 is part of the GeForce 50-series with a predecessor in GeForce 40 and a successor in GeForce 60, indicating an active product cycle. The Radeon Pro 5500 XT is end-of-life, released in August 2020, and belongs to the "Radeon Pro Mac (Navi Series)" generation. Its nearest rivals by average score include the Intel Arc A730M (-0.5% delta), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile (+0.5% delta), and NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation (-1.3% delta) – all high-end parts, which underscores the Radeon Pro 5500 XT’s strong relative performance in its narrow benchmark set. The RTX 5070’s nearest rivals are lower-tier professional cards like the AMD Radeon Pro 580 (+0.1% delta) and AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 (+0.8% delta), reflecting its diluted average score from legacy tests.