AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 359.01 significantly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

11265 points

316% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

231 FPS

170 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

167 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

204 FPS

152 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

97 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

19436 points

312% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

2414.65 points

611% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

157812 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

100571 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

200077 points

306% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

154801 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

157877 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

2015 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

2250 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% 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

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

100% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

388% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

299% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

298% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

4608

227% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

227% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

33rd 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

2020 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 6800 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is better than the Radeon RX 5500.