AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500M and AMD Radeon Pro 580X 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 5500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1448 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 1645 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 7% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 38172 vs 35755
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 18 March 2019
Core clock speed 1448 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed 1645 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 38172 vs 35755

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 580X

  • 1193.7x more texture fill rate: 172.8 GTexel/s vs 144.76 GT/s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7540 vs 3166
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 336
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3643 vs 3617
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3643 vs 3617
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 172.8 GTexel/s vs 144.76 GT/s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7540 vs 3166
PassMark - G2D Mark 698 vs 336
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3643 vs 3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3345
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3643 vs 3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3345

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro 580X

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3166
7540
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
336
698
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
38172
35755
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3617
3643
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3345
3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3617
3643
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3345
3360
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500M AMD Radeon Pro 580X
PassMark - G3D Mark 3166 7540
PassMark - G2D Mark 336 698
Geekbench - OpenCL 38172 35755
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3617 3643
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3345 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3617 3643
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3345 3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4223

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500M AMD Radeon Pro 580X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 4.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 18 March 2019
Place in performance rating 368 365
Type Laptop Laptop
Code name Polaris 20

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1645 MHz 1200 MHz
Compute units 22 36
Core clock speed 1448 MHz 1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.26 TFLOPs 5.530 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.63 TFLOPs 5.530 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate 52.6 GP/s 38.40 GPixel/s
Stream Processors 1408
Texture fill rate 144.76 GT/s 172.8 GTexel/s
Transistor count 6400 million 5700 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 345.6 GFLOPS
Pipelines 2304
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 217.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective)

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

API support

DirectX 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.3
Vulkan