AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 1406 MHz
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1677 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 345 Watt
  • 7.4x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Dec 2019 vs 7 August 2017
Core clock speed 1607 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed 1845 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 345 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3367 vs 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3367 vs 3362

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 162.4 GTexel/s
  • 2.9x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1408
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 74% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 19324 vs 11075
  • Around 74% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 19324 vs 11075
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 429.30 GTexel/s vs 162.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1408
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19324 vs 11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 vs 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19324 vs 11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 vs 3722

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11075
19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3722
3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3367
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11075
19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3722
3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3367
3362
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
PassMark - G3D Mark 9164
PassMark - G2D Mark 784
Geekbench - OpenCL 44853
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 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3722 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3367 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11075 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3722 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3367 3362
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4892

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Navi 14 Vega 10
Launch date 12 Dec 2019 7 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $169 $699
Place in performance rating 288 208
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Design Radeon RX Vega Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz 1677 MHz
Compute units 22 64
Core clock speed 1607 MHz 1406 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 324.7 GFLOPS (1:16) 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.39 TFLOPS (2:1) 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.196 TFLOPS 13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines 1408 4096
Pixel fill rate 59.04 GPixel/s 107.30 GP/s
Texture fill rate 162.4 GTexel/s 429.30 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 345 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 13.7 TFLOPs
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 4096
Texture Units 256

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 7.09 inches (180 mm) 282 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 1000 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2

Technologies

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