AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME, 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

22% slightly better overall score

2123 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points

391% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

48735 points

0.33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40056 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

60508 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

1380 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

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

34% slightly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

44.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

198.7 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

6.36 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

63% significantly 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

201st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2020 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 590 GME comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 XT also has a slightly 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 590 GME at 175 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 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME.