AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports. 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1406 MHz
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1677 MHz
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 225 Watt
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed 1845 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 225 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 429.3 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 61% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 7765 vs 4813
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 429.3 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7765 vs 4813

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4813
7765
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
PassMark - G3D Mark 8784
PassMark - G2D Mark 743
Geekbench - OpenCL 44494
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 7765

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 5.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 8 August 2017
Place in performance rating 268 267
Type Desktop Desktop
Code name Vega 10

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz 1677 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 1406 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 429.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million
Floating-point performance 13,738 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 2x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 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 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort