AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 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

9568 points

380% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

196 FPS

152 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

143 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

173 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

83 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4472 points

16155 points

261% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points

1896.07 points

428% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points

130322 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points

93163 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

130005 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points

133046 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz

1815 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

2105 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% 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

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W

194% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

202.1 Gigapixels/s

284% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

505.2 Gigatexels/s

248% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

249% 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

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586

41st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2020 November

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 5500M vs Radeon RX 6800 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500M in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 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 6800 at 250 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 is better than the Radeon RX 5500M.