AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +3928%

5.398 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Sep 2010

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

-

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

48

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GF108

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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