AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 349.00

$ 50.99 slightly less expensive

$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

12665 points

386% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

267 FPS

211 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

178 FPS

138 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

245 FPS

197 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

104 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

2098.98 points

316% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

127642 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

142477 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

1800 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

2544 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

432 GB/s

92% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

88% significantly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

313% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

238% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

246% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

4096

190% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

216

145% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

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 XT vs Radeon RX 7700 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7700 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 7700 XT 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT at 245 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.