AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile Comparison

The Verdict

The recorded data splits these two GPUs into clearly different performance tiers. The NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile wins both head-to-head benchmark tests, with a 40.9% advantage in Geekbench OpenCL and a 162.4% advantage in Geekbench Vulkan. Its average benchmark score of 113,944 places it at the 94th percentile of all GPUs in the database, while the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP averages 63,830, sitting at the 89th percentile.

The RTX A5500 Mobile is the choice for compute-heavy workloads and any application that relies on Vulkan rendering. The AMD card, despite being a newer design on a smaller process node, does not close the gap in the two recorded tests. The RX 9060 XT LP does offer a lower thermal design power of 140 W versus 165 W, and it is an active product, while the NVIDIA part is end-of-life. Users who require an actively produced card with lower power draw may prefer the AMD option, but the benchmark data does not show a single test where the AMD card wins.

The RTX A5500 Mobile's nearest rivals in the database include the NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB at a 0.4% higher average score, the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation at 2.7% higher, the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 at 2.9% lower, and the NVIDIA GB10 at 2.9% higher. The RX 9060 XT LP's nearest rivals are the NVIDIA CMP 30HX at a 0% delta, the AMD Radeon RX 7600M at 0.1% higher, the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 at 0.2% higher, and the AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100 at 0.6% lower. This places the two cards in completely different competitive brackets.

Architecture Differences

The two GPUs come from different manufacturers, process nodes, and design philosophies. The NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile uses the GA103 chip built on Ampere architecture, manufactured by Samsung on an 8 nm process. The die measures 496 mm² and contains 22,000 million transistors, giving a transistor density of 44.4M per mm². The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP uses the Navi 44 chip with RDNA 4.0 architecture, built by TSMC on a 4 nm node. Its die is much smaller at 199 mm², but it packs 29,700 million transistors, resulting in a substantially higher density of 149.2M per mm².

The NVIDIA card is a mobile workstation part from the Ampere-MW generation, released in March 2022, and has been marked as end-of-life. The AMD card belongs to the Radeon RX 9000 series, specifically the Navi IV generation, released in December 2025, and remains active in production. The NVIDIA card's predecessor is the Quadro Turing-M and its successor is Ada-MW. The AMD card's predecessor is Navi III and it has no successor listed.

Both cards support the same API feature set: DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. Both have 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. The memory architecture, however, differs significantly: the NVIDIA card uses a 256-bit bus with 512.0 GB/s bandwidth, while the AMD card uses a 128-bit bus with 322.3 GB/s bandwidth. The NVIDIA card does not list tensor cores, but it does have 232 of them; the AMD card has no tensor core field recorded.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The database records two benchmark comparisons between these cards. In Geekbench OpenCL, the NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile scores 124,287 against the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP's 88,183. This yields a 40.9% delta in favor of the NVIDIA card. The gap is more dramatic in Geekbench Vulkan, where NVIDIA scores 103,601 versus AMD's 39,476, a 162.4% advantage. No benchmark in the recorded data shows the AMD card ahead.

The OpenCL result reflects a substantial but not overwhelming lead. The Vulkan result is a dominant outlier, suggesting the NVIDIA architecture handles the Vulkan workload with far greater efficiency in this specific test. The AMD card's Vulkan score of 39,476 is less than half of its own OpenCL score of 88,183, while the NVIDIA card's Vulkan score of 103,601 is close to its OpenCL score of 124,287. This pattern indicates a notable weakness in AMD's Vulkan performance relative to its own OpenCL performance, at least within this benchmark.

The overall average benchmark scores reinforce the head-to-head results. The RTX A5500 Mobile averages 113,944, which is 78.5% higher than the RX 9060 XT LP's 63,830 average. The percentile rankings also differ: 94th percentile for NVIDIA versus 89th for AMD. The NVIDIA card's average score is close to its nearest rival, the NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB, which scores 114,395, a delta of only 0.4%. The AMD card's average sits directly alongside the NVIDIA CMP 30HX at 63,842, a 0% delta, and the AMD Radeon RX 7600M at 63,775, a 0.1% delta.

The database also records the NVIDIA card's rivals with deltas of 2.7% (RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation at 117,088), 2.9% (Radeon PRO W7900 at 110,725, lower than the NVIDIA), and 2.9% (GB10 at 117,393). The AMD card's other recorded rival deltas are 0.2% (Radeon Pro Vega 56 at 63,693) and 0.6% (Radeon Pro WX 9100 at 64,212, lower than the AMD).

Specification Differences

The two cards differ across nearly every physical and architectural specification. The process node is 8 nm for NVIDIA versus 4 nm for AMD. The foundry is Samsung for NVIDIA and TSMC for AMD. The transistor count is 22,000 million for NVIDIA and 29,700 million for AMD. The die size is 496 mm² for NVIDIA and 199 mm² for AMD. Transistor density is 44.4M per mm² for NVIDIA and 149.2M per mm² for AMD.

The clock speeds differ considerably. The NVIDIA card has a base clock of 975 MHz and a boost clock of 1500 MHz. The AMD card has a base clock of 1380 MHz, a boost clock of 3050 MHz, and a game clock of 2450 MHz. The memory clock is 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) for NVIDIA and 2518 MHz (20.1 Gbps effective) for AMD.

The compute unit counts favor NVIDIA in raw numbers. The NVIDIA card has 7424 shading units, 232 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 58 RT cores, and 232 tensor cores. The AMD card has 2048 shading units, 128 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 32 RT cores, with no tensor core field recorded. Despite the lower unit counts, the AMD card achieves a higher pixel rate of 195.2 GPixel/s versus NVIDIA's 144.0 GPixel/s, and a higher texture rate of 390.4 GTexel/s versus NVIDIA's 348.0 GTexel/s. The FP32 throughput is 24.99 TFLOPS for AMD versus 22.27 TFLOPS for NVIDIA. Both have FP16 at a 1:1 ratio with the same values as FP32.

The memory bus is 256-bit for NVIDIA and 128-bit for AMD. The bandwidth is 512.0 GB/s for NVIDIA and 322.3 GB/s for AMD. The TDP is 165 W for NVIDIA and 140 W for AMD. The power connectors are listed as "None" for NVIDIA and "1x 8-pin" for AMD. The AMD card has a suggested PSU of 300 W, while no suggested PSU is recorded for NVIDIA. The bus interface is PCIe 4.0 x16 for NVIDIA and PCIe 5.0 x16 for AMD. The NVIDIA card's display outputs are listed as "Portable Device Dependent," while the AMD card has 1x HDMI 2.1b and 2x DisplayPort 2.1a. The AMD card is dual-slot, while no slot width is recorded for NVIDIA.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU has the higher average benchmark score?

A: The NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile has an average benchmark score of 113,944, while the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP has an average of 63,830.

Q: How large is the performance gap in the head-to-head tests?

A: The NVIDIA card leads by 40.9% in Geekbench OpenCL (124,287 versus 88,183) and by 162.4% in Geekbench Vulkan (103,601 versus 39,476).

Q: Which card has the lower power draw?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP has a TDP of 140 W, compared to the NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile's 165 W.

Q: Do both cards have the same memory capacity?

A: Yes, both have 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, but the NVIDIA card uses a 256-bit bus with 512.0 GB/s bandwidth, while the AMD card uses a 128-bit bus with 322.3 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: Which card is more densely packed with transistors?

A: The AMD card has a transistor density of 149.2M per mm² on a 4 nm TSMC process, while the NVIDIA card has 44.4M per mm² on an 8 nm Samsung process.

Q: What are the production statuses of the two cards?

A: The NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile is end-of-life, released in March 2022, while the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP is active, released in December 2025.

Where Each One Wins

The NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile wins both recorded benchmarks, so the data supports its use in any workload measured by Geekbench OpenCL or Geekbench Vulkan. The OpenCL win of 40.9% makes it the stronger choice for general compute tasks that rely on OpenCL. The Vulkan win of 162.4% makes it the clear pick for Vulkan-based rendering or compute applications. Its higher memory bandwidth of 512.0 GB/s and wider 256-bit bus also suggest an advantage in memory-heavy workloads, though the benchmark data does not directly measure that. The NVIDIA card also has more shading units, TMUs, ROPs, and RT cores, which may translate to advantages in workloads that scale with those resources, although the AMD card's higher FP32 throughput of 24.99 TFLOPS versus 22.27 TFLOPS indicates the AMD card can exceed it in raw floating-point math.

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP wins in areas outside the benchmark suite. It has a lower TDP of 140 W versus 165 W, which makes it the more power-efficient option on paper. It is an active product, whereas the NVIDIA card is end-of-life. Its smaller die of 199 mm² and higher transistor density of 149.2M per mm² reflect a more modern 4 nm manufacturing process. The AMD card also has a higher pixel rate of 195.2 GPixel/s and texture rate of 390.4 GTexel/s, so it may handle rasterization-bound tasks better despite losing the recorded compute benchmarks. Its PCIe 5.0 x16 interface is newer than the NVIDIA card's PCIe 4.0 x16, and it offers discrete display outputs including 1x HDMI 2.1b and 2x DisplayPort 2.1a, while the NVIDIA card's outputs are portable-device dependent.

The AMD card's nearest rivals in the database, such as the NVIDIA CMP 30HX at a 0% delta and the AMD Radeon RX 7600M at 0.1% higher, show that it competes in a much lower performance bracket. The NVIDIA card's nearest rivals, including the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation at 2.7% higher and the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 at 2.9% lower, place it in workstation-class territory. Users who need the highest recorded compute performance should choose the NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile. Users who need an actively produced, lower-power card with modern display outputs and a newer PCIe interface may consider the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP, accepting the significant performance deficit shown in the database.