AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 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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$ 395.99

$ 349.00

$ 46.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4311 points

65% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

89 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7692 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

619.96 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

56432 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

41242 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

57968 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48131 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

80618 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

56001 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65528 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

77765 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz

1607 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

1845 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

130 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.8 Gigapixels/s

69% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.64 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.19 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

63% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

63% significantly 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

116th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2019 December

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 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 5500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming.

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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT at 150 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 5600 XT is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.