AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 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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$ 629.99

$ 349.00

$ 280.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points

442% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS

230 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS

168 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS

208 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points

4904 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

392% significantly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

159528 points

286% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

41242 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points

249% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points

239% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

208130 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

56001 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

260% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

13% 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

720 Gigatexels/s

343% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS

343% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

263% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

263% 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

24th 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 August

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 6900 XT vs Radeon RX 5500 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in our tests.

The Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 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 6900 XT over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.