AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 645.01 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2707 points

6138 points

126% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

60 FPS

107 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

100 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS

106 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

56 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4717 points

9129 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

339.58 points

817.47 points

140% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40204 points

86533 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34601 points

77122 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

49159 points

77386 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44390 points

92086 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54355 points

91729 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1670 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

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

4096 Bit

3100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

1024 GB/s

357% 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

115.26 Gigapixels/s

95% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

166% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

165% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

3840

172% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

172% 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

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon VII benchmarks

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

Our database shows that 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. 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 VII has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon VII over the Radeon RX 5500.