AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +991%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Unknown

Navi

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

4

-

1408

Shading Units

320

88

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

240W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

R600

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

2

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

3

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

4

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

5

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7570

6

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA CMP 100HX-210

7

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Intel Arc A780

8

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

9

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

10

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!