AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon R9 M395X 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon R9 M395X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 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
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz
Around 53% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42529 vs 27707

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 5 May 2015
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
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	42529 vs 27707

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395X

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 M395X

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42529

27707

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R9 M395X
Geekbench - OpenCL	42529	27707
PassMark - G3D Mark		5195
PassMark - G2D Mark		733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		65.367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		799.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		71.057
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		413.329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2154
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2154
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon R9 M395X
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Navi 14	Amethyst
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	512	460
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 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
Eyefinity
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	12
OpenCL	2.0	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore