AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1757MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +142%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

5.398 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +827%

742

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

80

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Aug 2020

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1187 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

24

4096

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Navi 14

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

125W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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