AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1757MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +142%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Jul 2017

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

64

1536

Shading Units

4096

96

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Vega 10

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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