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Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

The Radeon RX 5500 has a clock frequency of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which features core clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a small bit (approximately 2%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2544 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570 37376 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16064 (43%)

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 RX 570
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2019 April 2017
Code Name Navi 14 XT Polaris 20
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1670 MHz 1168 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 146960 Mtexels/sec 149504 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 53440 Mpixels/sec 37376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1408 2048
Texture Mapping Units 88 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 14 nm
Transistors 6400 million 5700 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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach 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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