AMD Radeon RX 580X vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1845MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +18%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Dec 2019

Polaris

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

22

-

2304

Shading Units

1408

144

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Navi 14

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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