AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1836 points

2605 points

41% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

56 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

40 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

48 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

22 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3877 points

4904 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40609 points

48577 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37797 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34371 points

46502 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

45743 points

53890 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz

1607 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1284 MHz

1845 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

224 GB/s

Identical

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

41.09 Gigapixels/s

59 Gigapixels/s

43% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

164.4 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.26 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

45% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

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

4.6

Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs Radeon RX 5500 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in our tests.

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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is better than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.