AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 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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$ 659.00

$ 349.00

$ 310.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11265 points

332% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

231 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

167 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

204 FPS

155 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19436 points

296% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2414.65 points

379% significantly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

150488 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

41242 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

157812 points

224% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

100571 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

200077 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

56001 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

154801 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157877 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2015 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

1607 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

1845 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

8 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

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

130 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

388% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

648 Gigatexels/s

299% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.74 TFLOPS

298% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608

227% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

227% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 586

171st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

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 6800 XT vs Radeon RX 5500 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 6800 XT over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.