Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs Radeon RX 6900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5500 OEM Advantages
Lower TDP (110W vs 300W)
Radeon RX 6900 XT Advantages
Released 1 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 22% (2250MHz vs 1845MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
3712 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
5196
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+343%
23040
Graphics Card
Oct 2019
Release Date
Oct 2020
Navi
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1825 MHz
1845 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
22
Compute Units
80
1408
Shading Units
5120
88
TMUs
320
32
ROPs
128
-
RT Cores
80
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
59.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
288.0 GPixel/s
162.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
720.0 GTexel/s
10.39 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
46.08 TFLOPS
5.196 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
324.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1440 GFLOPS
Board Design
110W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 14
GPU Name
Navi 21
Navi 14 XT
(215-0932220)
(215-0932220)
GPU Variant
Navi 21 XTX
(215-121000167)
(215-121000167)
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
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
6.5
Shader Model
6.5
