AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and NVIDIA RTX A5500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

NVIDIA RTX A5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1295 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Around 46% higher boost clock speed: 2430 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 583.2 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 2438 MHz, 19.5 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1155 vs 904
Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 24190 vs 21675

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 Aug 2023 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed	1295 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Boost clock speed	2430 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate	583.2 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed	2438 MHz, 19.5 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1155 vs 904
PassMark - G3D Mark	24190 vs 21675

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5500

2.7x more pipelines: 10240 vs 3840
Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 230 Watt vs 263 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 16 GB
Around 25% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 174913 vs 139980

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	10240 vs 3840
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	230 Watt vs 263 Watt
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	174913 vs 139980

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A5500

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1155

904

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

24190

21675

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

139980

174913

Name	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT	NVIDIA RTX A5500
PassMark - G2D Mark	1155	904
PassMark - G3D Mark	24190	21675
Geekbench - OpenCL	139980	174913
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4154
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	500.918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	43.482
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	530.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2259.753

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT	NVIDIA RTX A5500
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 32	GA102
Launch date	25 Aug 2023	22 Mar 2022
Place in performance rating	25	27
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2430 MHz	1665 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1295 MHz	1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Pipelines	3840	10240
Pixel fill rate	233.3 GPixel/s	159.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	583.2 GTexel/s	532.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	263 Watt	230 Watt
Transistor count	28100 million	28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		1,066 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		34.10 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		34.10 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1	4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Height	50 mm, 2 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Width	111 mm, 4.4 inches	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	624.1 GB/s	768.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	2438 MHz, 19.5 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6