AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (1845MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +93%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT +177%

4915

Radeon R9 270X

1769

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

20

-

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Curacao

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

212 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs MTT S30

2

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

3

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI FirePro 2260 PCI

4

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM

5

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 4770

6

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6670

7

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

8

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

9

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

10

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465

Related News

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster