ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.87 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 13.36 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 28 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition GPU PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GA106-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
Ampere Architecture RDNA 1
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
3584 Shader 1408
48 Render Output Units 32
112 Texture Units 88
28 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition is equipped with a 12 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.875 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

12 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.875 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
15.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
360 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition has a turbo clock of 1.867 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon is 1.845 GHz.

1.320 GHz Base Clock 1.685 GHz
1.867 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
1.84 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.74 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

170 W TDP 130 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 41 dB

Connectivity

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

200 mm Length 227 mm
123 mm Height 120 mm
38 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition was released in Q1/2021.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT Red Dragon published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

DUAL-RTX3060-O12G Part-no AXRX 5500 XT 8GBD6-DHR/OC
Q1/2021 Release date Q3/2019
459 $ Launch Price 169 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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