AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1845MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +102%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

Radeon RX Vega 56 +39%

6873

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Radeon RX Vega 56 +30%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Radeon RX Vega 56 +32%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Radeon RX Vega 56 +22%

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Radeon RX Vega 56 +57%

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Radeon RX Vega 56 +45%

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

Radeon RX Vega 56 +42%

125

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

Radeon RX Vega 56 +9%

46

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

Radeon RX Vega 56 +54%

91

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT +12%

124

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Aug 2017

Navi

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

56

1408

Shading Units

3584

88

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Vega 10

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

210W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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