AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT, 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

2605 points

59% significantly better overall score

1632 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

33 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

31356 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

36756 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1074 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

1226 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

130 W

15% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

39.23 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

137.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

4.39 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

1792

27% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

27% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586

232nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2019 March

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 XT vs Radeon RX 560 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 560 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly 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 5500 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 XT at 150 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 RX 5500 XT over the Radeon RX 560 XT.