AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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

4979 points

149% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

104 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

78 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

87 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

43 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4472 points

11742 points

162% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points

1392.24 points

287% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points

93784 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points

55272 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

87678 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points

97983 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz

2300 MHz

67% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

2581 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W

70% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

214% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

368 Gigatexels/s

154% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS

11.78 TFLOPS

154% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2560

81% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

81% 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

209th of 586

102nd 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

2021 May

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 6800M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800M GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500M in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800M 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 6800M also has a significantly 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 6800M has significantly more memory with 12 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 6800M at 145 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 RX 6800M over the Radeon RX 5500M.