AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, 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

1695% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4472 points

980% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

414 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points

749% significantly higher Blender score

42.23 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points

740% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points

593% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

875% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points

673% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1375 MHz

358% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1645 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W

15 W

466% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

1095% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

996% significantly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

633% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

633% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586

500th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2019 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 Vega 3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500M beats the Radeon Vega 3 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500M has a significantly 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 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500M at 85 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500M over the Radeon Vega 3.