AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +1433%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Jul 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Northern Islands

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

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

4

-

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

125W

TDP

39W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Redwood

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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