AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 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

12767 points

540% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

270 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

178 FPS

147 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

247 FPS

209 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

104 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4472 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points

2098.98 points

484% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

127642 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points

142477 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz

1800 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

2544 MHz

54% 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

432 GB/s

92% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W

188% significantly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

363% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

279% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

289% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

4096

190% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

216

145% 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

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 7700 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500M in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 7700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 7700 XT at 245 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 5500M.