AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 299.99

$ 188.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

99% significantly better overall score

2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

103% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

188% significantly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

49159 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

54355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

1670 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1845 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

150 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

106% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

87% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

87% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

81% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

81% 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

93rd of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 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 XT vs Radeon RX 5500 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 5500.