AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580X 8 GB, 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

2318 points

16% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

47 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

35 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

51 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

19 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points

41822 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

41822 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

1340 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 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

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W

117% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

33% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

63% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586

189th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5500M vs Radeon RX 580X specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500M graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580X in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 580X has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X at 185 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 5500M over the Radeon RX 580X.