AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon E8870

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon E8870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 3.4x more texture fill rate: 162.36 GT/s vs 48 GTexel / s
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8803 vs 3368
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 708
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12069 vs 4620
  • 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12069 vs 4620
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 29 September 2015
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s vs 48 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8803 vs 3368
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 vs 708
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069 vs 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069 vs 4620

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8870

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5030 vs 3717
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 18191 vs 3351
  • Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5030 vs 3717
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 18191 vs 3351
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5030 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18191 vs 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5030 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18191 vs 3351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E8870

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8803
3368
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
766
708
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12069
4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
18191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12069
4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
18191
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon E8870
PassMark - G3D Mark 8803 3368
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 708
Geekbench - OpenCL 42314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 18191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069 4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 18191
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 36.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 874.689
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.11

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon E8870

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 2.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 29 September 2015
Place in performance rating 257 341
Type Desktop Desktop
Code name Saturn

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 1000 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 59 GP/s
Stream Processors 1408
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s 48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 2,080 million
Floating-point performance 1,536 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 768

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin None
Interface MXM-B (3.0)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 96 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.5