AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2520MHz vs 1757MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070
+569%
36.13 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro 5500 XT
5.398 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Aug 2020
Navi IV
Generation
Radeon Pro Mac
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1330 MHz
Base Clock
1187 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1757 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
3584
Shading Units
1536
224
TMUs
96
128
ROPs
32
112
Tensor Cores
-
56
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
322.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.22 GPixel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
168.7 GTexel/s
72.25 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.80 TFLOPS
36.13 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.398 TFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
337.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
125W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
Navi 14
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
GPU Variant
Navi 14 PRO XL
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
7 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
6.4 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
158 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.5
