AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 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 - T-Rex (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon RX 5500

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1000 MHz
3.9x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 580 Watt

Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 3 September 2015
Core clock speed	1670 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

13.3x more texture fill rate: 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 162.36 GT/s
4x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 4 GB

Texture fill rate	2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 162.36 GT/s
Maximum memory size	2x 8 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8785
PassMark - G2D Mark	747
Geekbench - OpenCL	44380
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
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		21.128

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500	AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	GCN 2.0
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	3 September 2015
Place in performance rating	259	262
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		Grenada
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,399
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	2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		2x 2560
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	4x 8-pin
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		5400 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL		4.5