AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

47% significantly better overall score

1836 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

40 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3877 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

40609 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

37797 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34371 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

45743 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

42% significantly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

1284 MHz

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

Identical

224 GB/s

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

43% significantly higher pixel rate

41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

164.4 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

5.26 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2048

45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

218th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming.

Our database shows that 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 significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 5500 and the Radeon RX 580 2048SP have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 is better than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.