Radeon RX 6700 XT vs Radeon RX 5500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 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
Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (2581MHz vs 1845MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 230W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+154%
13210
Radeon RX 5500 XT
5196
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+163%
12804
Radeon RX 5500 XT
4858
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+159%
5957
Radeon RX 5500 XT
2298
Blender
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+226%
1748
Radeon RX 5500 XT
535
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+126%
52
Radeon RX 5500 XT
23
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+123%
96
Radeon RX 5500 XT
43
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+100%
142
Radeon RX 5500 XT
71
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+130%
76
Radeon RX 5500 XT
33
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+125%
144
Radeon RX 5500 XT
64
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+119%
193
Radeon RX 5500 XT
88
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+97%
83
Radeon RX 5500 XT
42
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+76%
104
Radeon RX 5500 XT
59
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+33%
166
Radeon RX 5500 XT
124
Graphics Card
Mar 2021
Release Date
Dec 2019
Navi II
Generation
Navi
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
2321 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
2581 MHz
Boost Clock
1845 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
22
2560
Shading Units
1408
160
TMUs
88
64
ROPs
32
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
96 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
165.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
413.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
162.4 GTexel/s
26.43 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.39 TFLOPS
13.21 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.196 TFLOPS
825.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
324.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
230W
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 22
GPU Name
Navi 14
Navi 22 XT
(215-127000006)
GPU Variant
Navi 14 XTX
(215-0932396)
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
7 nm
17.2 billion
Transistors
6.4 billion
335 mm²
Die Size
158 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
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
