AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1845MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +152%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jul 2017

Navi

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

64

-

1408

Shading Units

4096

88

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Vega 10

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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