AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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

Lower TDP (130W vs 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2498MHz vs 1845MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

4736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +1081%

61.39 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4915

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +523%

30621

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT

535

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +774%

4680

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +452%

127

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +430%

228

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +336%

310

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +316%

175

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +196%

175

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +53%

190

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Nov 2022

Navi

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1929 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

2498 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

96

-

1408

Shading Units

6144

88

TMUs

384

32

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

96

-

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

479.6 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

959.2 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

122.8 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

61.39 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.918 TFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

355W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Navi 31

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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