AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 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 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (1757MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +31%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Apr 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

32

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Malta

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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