AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

236% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

31 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4472 points

213% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

358.91 points

304% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36948 points

321% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34067 points

280% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38725 points

316% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

44878 points

293% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 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

2000 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

85 W

45 W

88% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

52.6 Gigapixels/s

228% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

144.76 Gigatexels/s

126% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.63 TFLOPS

126% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

175% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

175% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 January

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 8 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500M beats the Radeon Vega 8 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500M at 85 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 5500M over the Radeon Vega 8.