AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon VII 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 349.00

$ 596.00 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2605 points

6138 points

135% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

56 FPS

107 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

100 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

106 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

56 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4910 points

9325 points

89% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

503.48 points

817.47 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41242 points

68286 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48577 points

86533 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33781 points

77122 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

56001 points

77386 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46502 points

92086 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53890 points

91729 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1845 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

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

4096 Bit

3100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

1024 GB/s

357% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

130% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

59 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

95% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

162.36 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

166% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.2 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

165% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

3840

172% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

172% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

171st of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 December

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon VII benchmarks

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

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 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 significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon VII over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.