AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT and AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 65% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 973 MHz
Around 72% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1073 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 150 Watt
2.1x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 6600 MHz
Around 39% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 44853 vs 32333

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Dec 2019 vs 13 March 2019
Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 973 MHz
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz vs 1073 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 6600 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	44853 vs 32333

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

44853

32333

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT	AMD Radeon RX 560 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	9164
PassMark - G2D Mark	784
Geekbench - OpenCL	44853	32333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	128.135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2024.814
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	125.474
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	742.778
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3367
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3367
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4892

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT	AMD Radeon RX 560 XT
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Navi 14	Ellesmere
Launch date	12 Dec 2019	13 March 2019
Launch price (MSRP)	$169
Place in performance rating	288	720
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
GCN generation		4th Gen
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz	1073 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1607 MHz	973 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	324.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.39 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.196 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408
Pixel fill rate	59.04 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	162.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	7.09 inches (180 mm)	241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	6600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support