ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock1845MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +991%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2019

Radeon R600

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

22

320

Shading Units

1408

16

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Navi 14

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

TeraScale

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

240W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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