AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 299.99

$ 49.01 slightly less expensive

$ 349.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

3% slightly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

60 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

4904 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

503.48 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

48577 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

56001 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

46502 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

0.86% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1607 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

Identical

1845 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

Identical

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

130 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

Identical

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Identical

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

Identical

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

Identical

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5500 is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.