AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 349.00
$ 283.79
$ 65.21 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points
5776 points
121% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS
116 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
87 FPS
47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
103 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS
50 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points
144% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2007 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points
1351.36 points
168% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

56001 points
125070 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points
92543 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points
107859 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
1941 MHz
20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz
2450 MHz
32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
10 GiB
25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
160 Bit
25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
320 GB/s
42% much 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
156.8 Gigapixels/s
165% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s
352.8 Gigatexels/s
117% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS
11.29 TFLOPS
117% significantly 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

88
144
63% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586
86th 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 December
2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 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 6700 is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

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