AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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 R9 Nano

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 85% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 175 Watt
Around 5% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4813 vs 4579

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 27 August 2015
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 175 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4813 vs 4579

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s

Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

4813

4579

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
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	4579

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	GCN 3.0
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	27 August 2015
Place in performance rating	259	261
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		Fiji
Design		AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz	1000 MHz
Compute units	22	64
Core clock speed	1670 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	4096
Texture fill rate	162.36 GT/s	256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	8,900 million
Floating-point performance		8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		4096
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		152 mm
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	4096 bit
Memory type	GDDR6	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Memory clock speed		500 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
API support
DirectX		12
Mantle
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan