AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 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
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 345 Watt
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 7 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 345 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

  • 2644.1x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 19324 vs 12069
  • Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 19324 vs 12069
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 429.30 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19324 vs 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362 vs 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19324 vs 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362 vs 3351

Compare benchmarks

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

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12069
19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12069
19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3362
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
PassMark - G3D Mark 8814
PassMark - G2D Mark 766
Geekbench - OpenCL 42314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 3362
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 5.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 7 August 2017
Place in performance rating 257 208
Type Desktop Desktop
Code name Vega 10
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP) $699

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz 1677 MHz
Compute units 22 64
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 1406 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.4 TFLOPs 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.2 TFLOPs 13.4 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 59 GP/s 107.30 GP/s
Stream Processors 1408 4096
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s 429.30 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 345 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 13.7 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 840 GFLOPs
Pipelines 4096
Render output units 64
Texture Units 256

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt 1000 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 282 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
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
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
HDMI
VGA

API support

DirectX 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5
Vulkan