AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points

2605 points

339% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

56 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

40 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

48 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

22 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

4904 points

243% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

503.48 points

468% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

48577 points

454% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

33781 points

277% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points

56001 points

422% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

46502 points

400% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

53890 points

372% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1607 MHz

435% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1845 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

59 Gigapixels/s

268% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

162.36 Gigatexels/s

153% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

5.2 TFLOPS

153% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1408

175% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

175% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 Vega 8 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5500 XT has a significantly 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 Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is better than the Radeon Vega 8.