AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon R7 A265 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.

AMD Radeon RX 5500

AMD Radeon R7 A265

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 725 MHz
2.2x more boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 825 MHz
8.2x more texture fill rate: 162.36 GT/s vs 19.8 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
8.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8803 vs 994
Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 468
6.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42314 vs 6925

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 9 January 2014
Core clock speed	1670 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz vs 825 MHz
Texture fill rate	162.36 GT/s vs 19.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8803 vs 994
PassMark - G2D Mark	766 vs 468
Geekbench - OpenCL	42314 vs 6925

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 A265

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8803

994

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

766

468

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42314

6925

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500	AMD Radeon R7 A265
PassMark - G3D Mark	8803	994
PassMark - G2D Mark	766	468
Geekbench - OpenCL	42314	6925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4813

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500	AMD Radeon R7 A265
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	GCN 1.0
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	9 January 2014
Place in performance rating	257	455
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		Opal
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz	825 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1670 MHz	725 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	19.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	1,040 million
Floating-point performance		633.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		384
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3
Memory clock speed		1800 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 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5