AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Lower TDP (130W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X +13%

5.914 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT +15%

4901

Radeon R9 390X

4245

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jun 2015

Navi

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

44

1408

Shading Units

2816

88

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Grenada

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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