AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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

1993 points
8% slightly better overall score
1836 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS
40 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4472 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3877 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points
40609 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points
37797 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
34371 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points
45743 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz
17% slightly higher core clock speed
1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz
28% slightly higher boost clock speed
1284 MHz

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
Identical
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W
76% significantly lower TDP
150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s
28% slightly higher pixel rate
41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s
164.4 Gigatexels/s
13% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS
5.26 TFLOPS
13% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
2048
45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
128
45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586
218th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 5500M vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500M beats the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 5500M 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 5500M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5500M is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.

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