AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (2105MHz vs 1845MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 +211%

16.17 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 +230%

16233

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4915

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +182%

65

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +172%

117

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +136%

168

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +175%

91

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +178%

178

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +120%

194

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +133%

98

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +113%

126

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +37%

170

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

Radeon RX 6800

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Dec 2019

Navi II

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

22

-

3840

Shading Units

1408

240

TMUs

88

96

ROPs

32

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Navi 14

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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