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Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX Vega 64

Intro

The Radeon RX 5500 XT features a clock frequency of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 64, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1247 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1890 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 130 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 64 295 Watts
Difference: 165 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 64 is 116% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64 495411 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 266035 (116%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 64 should be much (about 111%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64 319232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 168136 (111%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 64 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64 79808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 24864 (45%)

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 XT Radeon RX Vega 64
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2019 August 2017
Code Name Navi 14 XTX Vega 10 XT
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1717 MHz 1247 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 1890 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 295 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 495411 MB/sec
Texel Rate 151096 Mtexels/sec 319232 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 54944 Mpixels/sec 79808 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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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