AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 11, 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

295% significantly better overall score

658 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

612% significantly higher Blender score

70.66 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12376 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33781 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12402 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

56001 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

17392 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13344 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

435% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

1400 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

426% significantly higher pixel rate

11.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

163% significantly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

163% significantly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

100% significantly more shading units

704

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 586

297th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2019 September

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 Vega 11 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 11 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly 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. 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500 XT over the Radeon Vega 11.