AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2815MHz vs 1845MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +10%

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT +177%

1629

Radeon RX 6500 XT

587

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +53%

23

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +38%

43

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +51%

71

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +22%

33

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +23%

64

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +27%

88

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +40%

42

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +37%

59

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +29%

124

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

Navi

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

16

1408

Shading Units

1024

88

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Navi 24

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

107W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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