AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1645MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500M +201%

4.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Feb 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1375 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1645 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

12

1408

Shading Units

768

88

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

144.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

9.265 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

289.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Saturn

Navi 14 XTM

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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