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Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

The Radeon RX 5500 XT uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which has GPU core speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 130 Watts
Radeon RX 570 150 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same bandwidth, so theoretically they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is just a bit (about 1%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 570 149504 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1592 (1%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570 37376 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17568 (47%)

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 570
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year December 2019 April 2017
Code Name Navi 14 XTX Polaris 20
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1717 MHz 1168 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 151096 Mtexels/sec 149504 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 54944 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably 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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