AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 70.00 slightly less expensive

$ 369.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

5600 points

106% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

116 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

85 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

102 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

49 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

9727 points

106% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

1068.60 points

214% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

82559 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

64460 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

109165 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

82739 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

93271 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

1968 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

2589 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

6% slightly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

180% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

104% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

103% significantly 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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

90th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 November

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 6600 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT also has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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, the Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 5500.