Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1845MHz
Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+10%
5733
Radeon RX 5500 XT
5196
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Dec 2019
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1845 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
22
2816
Shading Units
1408
176
TMUs
88
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
130W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Navi 14
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XTX
(215-0932396)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
6.4 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
158 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.5
