AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 149.39

$ 199.61 significantly less expensive

$ 349.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

825 points

2605 points

215% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

56 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

40 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

48 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

22 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1833 points

4904 points

167% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.09 points

503.48 points

287% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

21032 points

41242 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21086 points

48577 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19493 points

33781 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23476 points

56001 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20226 points

46502 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23100 points

53890 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1175 MHz

1607 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1275 MHz

1845 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112 GB/s

224 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s

59 Gigapixels/s

189% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s

162.36 Gigatexels/s

98% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.61 TFLOPS

5.2 TFLOPS

99% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1408

37% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

37% slightly 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

275th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5500 XT beats the Radeon RX 560 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 5500 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 5500 XT 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 5500 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is better than the Radeon RX 560.