AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 9070 and NVIDIA RTX A5500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 9070

NVIDIA RTX A5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 9070

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1330 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Around 51% higher boost clock speed: 2520 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 564.5 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 220 Watt vs 230 Watt
Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 2518 MHz, 20.1 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1276 vs 918
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 24879 vs 21872

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 Mar 2025 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed	1330 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate	564.5 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	220 Watt vs 230 Watt
Memory clock speed	2518 MHz, 20.1 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1276 vs 918
PassMark - G3D Mark	24879 vs 21872

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5500

2.9x more pipelines: 10240 vs 3584
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 16 GB
Around 26% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 174637 vs 138234

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	10240 vs 3584
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	174637 vs 138234

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 9070
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A5500

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1276

918

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

24879

21872

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

138234

174637

Name	AMD Radeon RX 9070	NVIDIA RTX A5500
PassMark - G2D Mark	1276	918
PassMark - G3D Mark	24879	21872
Geekbench - OpenCL	138234	174637
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6290

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 9070	NVIDIA RTX A5500
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 4.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 48	GA102
Launch date	6 Mar 2025	22 Mar 2022
Place in performance rating	31	29
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz	1665 MHz
Compute units	56
Core clock speed	1330 MHz	1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Pipelines	3584	10240
Pixel fill rate	322.6 GPixel/s	159.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	564.5 GTexel/s	532.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	220 Watt	230 Watt
Transistor count	53900 million	28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		1,066 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		34.10 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		34.10 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a	4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Length		267 mm, 10.5 inches
Width		112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.8	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	644.6 GB/s	768.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	2518 MHz, 20.1 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6