MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR has 4864 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.67 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 16.20 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G 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 MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 38 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti LHR Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GA104-202-A1 GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
Ampere Architecture RDNA 1
38 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
4864 Shader 1408
80 Render Output Units 32
152 Texture Units 88
38 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR has a turbo clock of 1.665 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is 1.845 GHz.

1.410 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.665 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.74 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G 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.

200 W TDP 135 W
220 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 MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
37 dB Noise (Load) 47 dB

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G 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 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G 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 MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

316 mm Length 177 mm
120 mm Height 102 mm
42 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
760 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 3X 8G LHR was released in Q2/2021.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

-- Part-no 11295-07-20G
Q2/2021 Release date Q3/2019
429 $ 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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