AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Comparison

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070 Ti decisively outclasses the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT in every shared benchmark, with margins that underscore a generational and architectural chasm. The RTX 5070 Ti posts a 408.4% higher Geekbench OpenCL score and a 468.5% higher Geekbench Vulkan score, while the Pro 5500 XT counters with a single proprietary Metal result that the NVIDIA card does not contest. The data paints a clear hierarchy: this is not a close contest but a one-sided rout, with the RTX 5070 Ti operating in a performance tier the older AMD part cannot approach.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The two cards share only two direct benchmark comparisons, and the RTX 5070 Ti wins both by staggering margins. In Geekbench OpenCL, the NVIDIA card scores 212,363 against the AMD card’s 41,772, a delta of 408.4%. That is not a marginal improvement; it is a fivefold jump in raw compute throughput, reflecting the RTX 5070 Ti’s 43.94 TFLOPS FP32 output versus the Pro 5500 XT’s 5.398 TFLOPS. The Vulkan result is even more lopsided: 225,122 for NVIDIA versus 39,601 for AMD, a 468.5% advantage. Vulkan’s lower-level API overhead tends to favor architectures with higher geometry throughput and more efficient command processing, and the RTX 5070 Ti’s 686.6 GTexel/s texture rate versus 168.7 GTexel/s on the Pro 5500 XT explains part of that gap.

The RTX 5070 Ti also holds a decisive edge in memory bandwidth, a key driver in GPU-bound workloads. Its 896.0 GB/s over a 256-bit GDDR7 interface dwarfs the Pro 5500 XT’s 224.0 GB/s on a 128-bit GDDR6 bus. In practical terms, that means the NVIDIA card can feed its 8,960 shading units at a far higher rate, whereas the AMD card’s 1,536 shading units starve at a fraction of the bandwidth. The pixel rate tells a similar story: 235.4 GPixel/s for NVIDIA versus 56.22 GPixel/s for AMD, a 4.2x difference that directly impacts fill-rate-bound scenes at high resolutions.

Neither card has a win in the other’s exclusive tests. The Pro 5500 XT’s Geekbench Metal score of 54,779 is its best showing, but it has no NVIDIA counterpart in the data, so it cannot be compared head-to-head. The RTX 5070 Ti’s 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6,604, its Passmark G3D score of 32,974, and its Passmark GPU Compute score of 20,203 all stand alone; the AMD card was not tested in those workloads. What the shared data proves is that the RTX 5070 Ti is not merely faster — it is faster by a factor of five in compute and by a factor of 4.68 in Vulkan, with memory bandwidth and pixel throughput gaps that compound those results.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 5070 Ti wins everywhere both cards were measured, so the split is defined by workload type rather than by a head-to-head advantage for AMD. For OpenCL compute — common in scientific simulation, video encoding, and machine learning inference — the RTX 5070 Ti’s 212,363 score is 408.4% ahead, and its 43.94 TFLOPS FP32 rate makes it a clear choice for FP32-heavy tasks. The Pro 5500 XT’s FP16 output of 10.80 TFLOPS (2:1 ratio) is actually higher than its FP32 rate, but that does not help in the OpenCL test, where NVIDIA’s 43.94 TFLOPS FP16 (1:1) doubles the AMD part’s throughput even in mixed-precision scenarios.

For Vulkan gaming and real-time rendering, the RTX 5070 Ti’s 225,122 score is 468.5% ahead, and its 70 RT cores provide hardware ray tracing that the Pro 5500 XT lacks entirely. The AMD card has no RT cores and no tensor cores, so any workload relying on those features is an automatic win for NVIDIA. The RTX 5070 Ti’s 280 tensor cores also give it a decisive advantage in AI-accelerated features like DLSS, though the benchmark data does not directly test that functionality. The Pro 5500 XT’s only potential niche is Metal-based macOS workflows, where its 54,779 Metal score is the sole data point in its favor — but that is a platform-specific result, not a general performance win.

The RTX 5070 Ti also wins on memory capacity and bandwidth for large datasets: 16 GB GDDR7 versus 8 GB GDDR6, with 896.0 GB/s versus 224.0 GB/s. That 4x bandwidth advantage means the NVIDIA card can handle 4K textures and large compute buffers without swapping, while the Pro 5500 XT would bottleneck at 224.0 GB/s. The Pro 5500 XT’s 125 W TDP is lower than the RTX 5070 Ti’s 300 W, which suggests an efficiency advantage in absolute power draw, but the benchmark data does not include performance-per-watt metrics, so that comparison remains qualitative.

FAQ

Q: How much faster is the RTX 5070 Ti in OpenCL compute?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti scores 212,363 in Geekbench OpenCL versus 41,772 for the Pro 5500 XT, a 408.4% advantage.

Q: Does the Pro 5500 XT win any shared benchmark?

A: No. In the two head-to-head tests (Geekbench OpenCL and Vulkan), the RTX 5070 Ti wins both, with the Vulkan margin at 468.5%.

Q: What memory configuration does each card use?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti has 16 GB GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus with 896.0 GB/s bandwidth. The Pro 5500 XT has 8 GB GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 224.0 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: Does the Pro 5500 XT support ray tracing?

A: No. The Pro 5500 XT has no RT cores listed, while the RTX 5070 Ti has 70 RT cores.

Q: What is the FP32 throughput difference?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti delivers 43.94 TFLOPS FP32, while the Pro 5500 XT delivers 5.398 TFLOPS — an 8.1x gap.

Q: Which card has a higher percentile ranking among all GPUs?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti sits at the 86th percentile, while the Pro 5500 XT sits at the 84th percentile, despite the massive benchmark score gap.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ in nearly every core specification, starting with the GPU die. The RTX 5070 Ti uses the GB203 chip on a 5 nm TSMC process with 45,600 million transistors on a 378 mm² die. The Pro 5500 XT uses the Navi 14 chip on a 7 nm TSMC process with 6,400 million transistors on a 158 mm² die. That translates to a transistor density of 120.6M per mm² for NVIDIA versus 40.5M per mm² for AMD.

Clock speeds show a similar divergence: the RTX 5070 Ti runs at a 2295 MHz base and 2452 MHz boost, while the Pro 5500 XT runs at 1187 MHz base and 1757 MHz boost. Memory clocks are identical at 1750 MHz, but the effective data rates differ — 28 Gbps for NVIDIA’s GDDR7 versus 14 Gbps for AMD’s GDDR6. The RTX 5070 Ti has 8,960 shading units, 280 TMUs, and 96 ROPs; the Pro 5500 XT has 1,536 shading units, 96 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. The RTX 5070 Ti also has 70 RT cores and 280 tensor cores, while the Pro 5500 XT lists none for either.

Power and physical specs diverge sharply. The RTX 5070 Ti is a 300 W dual-slot card requiring a 700 W PSU and a 16-pin connector, measuring 304 mm in length. The Pro 5500 XT is an IGP (integrated graphics processor) with no power connectors, a 125 W TDP, a 300 W suggested PSU, and no display outputs. The RTX 5070 Ti offers 1x HDMI 2.1b and 3x DisplayPort 2.1b outputs; the Pro 5500 XT offers none. The bus interface also differs: PCIe 5.0 x16 for NVIDIA versus PCIe 4.0 x8 for AMD.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap is generational. The RTX 5070 Ti is built on Blackwell 2.0, NVIDIA’s latest architecture, while the Pro 5500 XT uses RDNA 1.0, AMD’s first-generation RDNA design. The RTX 5070 Ti supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), whereas the Pro 5500 XT is limited to DirectX 12 (12_1). Both cards support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4, but the feature sets behind those APIs differ drastically.

The RTX 5070 Ti’s Blackwell architecture includes dedicated RT cores for hardware ray tracing and tensor cores for AI acceleration, neither of which exists on the Pro 5500 XT. The FP16 ratio also differs: NVIDIA’s FP16 runs at 1:1 with FP32 (43.94 TFLOPS), while AMD’s FP16 runs at 2:1 (10.80 TFLOPS), meaning the AMD card’s FP16 throughput is actually double its FP32 rate but still far lower in absolute terms. The RTX 5070 Ti’s 5 nm process node is two generations ahead of the Pro 5500 XT’s 7 nm node, enabling higher transistor density and clock speeds at a lower per-transistor power cost.

The RTX 5070 Ti is an active production part released on 2025-02-19, succeeding the GeForce 40 series and preceding the GeForce 60 series. The Pro 5500 XT is end-of-life, released on 2020-08-03, with no successor listed. The RTX 5070 Ti has a launch MSRP of 749 USD; the Pro 5500 XT has no recorded launch MSRP. The RTX 5070 Ti’s avg benchmark score is 49,957 against the Pro 5500 XT’s 45,384, but that narrow 10% average gap is misleading — the shared benchmark deltas are all above 400%, and the averages are skewed by the Pro 5500 XT’s Metal score, which has no NVIDIA equivalent. The performance story is unambiguous: the RTX 5070 Ti is a modern high-end GPU, while the Pro 5500 XT is a legacy entry-level part from a previous architecture era.