AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, 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
$ 380.99 significantly less expensive
$ 729.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points
20954 points
704% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS
421 FPS
365 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
302 FPS
262 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
380 FPS
332 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS
172 FPS
149 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4904 points
7249 points
47% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points
3144.45 points
524% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points
160380 points
244% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points
194640 points
261% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz
2970 MHz
60% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
16 GiB
100% significantly more memory

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
640 GB/s
185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s
380.2 Gigapixels/s
544% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
836% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
128
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586
8th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 9070 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9070 XT beats the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

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