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Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

The Radeon RX 5500 has core speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with GPU core speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 300 Watts
Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 266076 (116%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (approximately 141%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 206832 (141%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 88448 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 35008 (66%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 5500 Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2019 June 2017
Code Name Navi 14 XT Vega 10 XTX
Memory 4096 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1670 MHz 1382 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 1890 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 495452 MB/sec
Texel Rate 146960 Mtexels/sec 353792 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 53440 Mpixels/sec 88448 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1408 4096
Texture Mapping Units 88 256
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR6 HBM2
Bus Width 128-bit 2048-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 14 nm
Transistors 6400 million 12500 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 ×16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon RX 5500

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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