AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1845MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +18%

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT +12%

4901

Radeon RX 580

4359

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +35%

23

Radeon RX 580

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +22%

43

Radeon RX 580

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +42%

71

Radeon RX 580

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +22%

33

Radeon RX 580

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +18%

64

Radeon RX 580

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +12%

88

Radeon RX 580

78

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

Radeon RX 580 +1%

60

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

36

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

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