AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

356% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

230% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

283% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

358% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

286% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

358% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

377% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

376% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

456% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

2000 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

45 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

268% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

153% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

153% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

175% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

175% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

166th of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 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 Vega 8 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 W. 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 5500 is faster than the Radeon Vega 8.