AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5700

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 230.00 significantly less expensive

$ 529.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

4478 points

65% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

91 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

67 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

79 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

38 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

8496 points

80% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

877.69 points

158% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

58932 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

51919 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

82201 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

69383 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

73003 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1465 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

1725 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

448 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

180 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

110.4 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

248.4 Gigatexels/s

52% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

7.95 TFLOPS

52% significantly 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

113th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 5700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5700 beats the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming performance.

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. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5700 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 is better than the Radeon RX 5500.