AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 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

14121 points

608% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

286 FPS

242 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

208 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

257 FPS

218 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

122 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4472 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4065 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points

2478.22 points

590% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points

170008 points

360% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points

114610 points

236% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

167644 points

332% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points

171121 points

281% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz

1825 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

2250 MHz

36% 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

252% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

447% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

720 Gigatexels/s

397% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

397% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

5120

263% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

263% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586

24th 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 August

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 6900 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6900 XT beats the Radeon RX 5500M in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 6900 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 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 6900 XT over the Radeon RX 5500M.