AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Price

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$ 529.99

$ 133.00 slightly less expensive

$ 662.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4478 points

15475 points

245% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

91 FPS

326 FPS

234 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

67 FPS

216 FPS

149 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

295 FPS

216 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

127 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8496 points

104% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4154 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

877.69 points

2429.25 points

176% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

69383 points

142590 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73003 points

157875 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1465 MHz

1800 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2430 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

624 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

46% significantly lower TDP

263 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.4 Gigapixels/s

233 Gigapixels/s

111% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

248.4 Gigatexels/s

583 Gigatexels/s

134% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.95 TFLOPS

36.04 TFLOPS

353% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

8192

255% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

240

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

113th of 586

17th 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 5700 vs Radeon RX 7800 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7800 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5700 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT also 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7800 XT at 263 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 7800 XT over the Radeon RX 5700.