AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1845MHz vs 1284MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +1%

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT +30%

4912

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3770

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT +296%

1629

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

411

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Oct 2018

Navi

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

32

1408

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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