AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 96.00 significantly less expensive

$ 395.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

4311 points

59% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

89 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

64 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

78 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

37 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

7692 points

63% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

619.96 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

57968 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

48131 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

80618 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

65528 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

77765 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

1130 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

Identical

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

69% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

7.19 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

63% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

116th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2020 January

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 5600 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 5600 XT has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 5500 and the Radeon RX 5600 XT have an identical TDP. 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 5600 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 5500.

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