AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +163%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

14

1408

Shading Units

896

88

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Bonaire

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

110W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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