AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon RX 560 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 1090-1175 MHz
  • Around 46% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 1200-1275 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 81.60 GTexel/s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1024
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed 1187 MHz vs 1090-1175 MHz
Boost clock speed 1757 MHz vs 1200-1275 MHz
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s vs 81.60 GTexel/s
Pipelines 1536 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560

  • Around 56% lower typical power consumption: 60-80 Watt vs 125 Watt
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
  • Around 38% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 57671 vs 41707
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60-80 Watt vs 125 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 57671 vs 41707

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
41707
57671
Name AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX 560
Geekbench - OpenCL 41707 57671
PassMark - G3D Mark 3655
PassMark - G2D Mark 487
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 56.81
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 775.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.602
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 257.062
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1774

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX 560

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Navi 14 Polaris 21
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 521 523
Type Desktop Desktop, Laptop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $99
Price now $104.99
Value for money (0-100) 54.35

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1757 MHz 1200-1275 MHz
Compute units 24 14/16
Core clock speed 1187 MHz 1090-1175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 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 1024
Pixel fill rate 56.22 GPixel/s 20.40 GP/s
Render output units 32 16
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s 81.60 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 60-80 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 3,000 million
Floating-point performance 2.6 TFLOPs
Stream Processors 896/1024
Texture Units 64

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width IGP
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length 170 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 112 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 7000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)