AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1845MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +316%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Mar 2019

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

8

1408

Shading Units

512

88

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Lexa

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

2

AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

3

AMD Radeon 680M vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

4

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

6

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 570

7

AMD Radeon 660M vs AMD Radeon 550X

8

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI FireMV 2250

9

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Intel Arc A380

10

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI FirePro V7800P