AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon Pro SSG

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon Pro SSG 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 16% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 588
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12069 vs 11029
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12069 vs 11029
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Boost clock speed 1845 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 350 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 vs 588
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069 vs 11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069 vs 11029

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro SSG

  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 384.0 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10972 vs 8803
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 7766 vs 3717
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 7766 vs 3717
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 384.0 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 10972 vs 8803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7766 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7766 vs 3717

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro SSG

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8803
10972
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
766
588
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12069
11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
7766
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12069
11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
7766
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon Pro SSG
PassMark - G3D Mark 8803 10972
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 588
Geekbench - OpenCL 42314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069 11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 7766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069 11029
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 7766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 170.923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3178.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 16.732
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 173.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1231.051

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon Pro SSG

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 5.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 8 August 2017
Place in performance rating 257 158
Type Desktop Workstation
Code name Vega 10
Launch price (MSRP) $6,999

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz 1500 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 1440 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 384.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 12,288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm
Pipelines 4096

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2048 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz

Technologies

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

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6