AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon R9 M295X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon R9 M295X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 723 MHz
1823x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42529 vs 27107

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 23 November 2014
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 723 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	42529 vs 27107

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X

Around 33% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1536

Pipelines	2048 vs 1536

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M295X

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42529

27107

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R9 M295X
Geekbench - OpenCL	42529	27107
PassMark - G3D Mark		5150
PassMark - G2D Mark		832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		65.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		820.138
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		7.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		68.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		386.418
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2045
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3144
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2045
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3144

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R9 M295X
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Navi 14	Amethyst
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	23 November 2014
Place in performance rating	512	488
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	2048
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	5,000 million
Floating-point performance		2,961 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	Not Listed
OpenCL	2.0	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	Not Listed
Shared memory		0
Technologies
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore