Home GPU Comparison AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1905MHz vs 1845MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT +87%
9.754 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 5500 XT
5.196 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5700 XT +94%
9425
Radeon RX 5500 XT
4858
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 5700 XT +92%
4414
Radeon RX 5500 XT
2298
Blender
Radeon RX 5700 XT +110%
1124
Radeon RX 5500 XT
535
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +69%
39
Radeon RX 5500 XT
23
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +72%
74
Radeon RX 5500 XT
43
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +56%
111
Radeon RX 5500 XT
71
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +78%
59
Radeon RX 5500 XT
33
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +76%
113
Radeon RX 5500 XT
64
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +61%
142
Radeon RX 5500 XT
88
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +54%
65
Radeon RX 5500 XT
42
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +35%
80
Radeon RX 5500 XT
59
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5700 XT +50%
186
Radeon RX 5500 XT
124

Graphics Card

Jul 2019
Release Date
Dec 2019
Navi
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
1845 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s

Render Config

40
Compute Units
22
-
-
-
2560
Shading Units
1408
160
TMUs
88
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W
TDP
130W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10
GPU Name
Navi 14
Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
7 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
6.4 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
6.5
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