AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 330W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2435MHz vs 1845MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX +379%

24.93 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Unknown

Navi

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

2075 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

2435 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

80

1408

Shading Units

5120

88

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

311.7 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

779.2 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

49.87 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.93 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.558 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Navi 21

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTXH (215-121000247)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

330W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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