AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +10%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Dec 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

22

2816

Shading Units

1408

176

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Navi 14

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

130W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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