Radeon RX 5500M vs GRID K500

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated358
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.84
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Navi 14
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date2 July 2014 (10 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,599 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores15361408
Core clock speed745 MHz1375 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1645 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt85 Watt
Texture fill rate95.36144.8
Floating-point processing power2.289 TFLOPS4.632 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12888

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 July 2014 7 October 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 85 Watt

RX 5500M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 164.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GRID K500 and Radeon RX 5500M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GRID K500 is a workstation card while Radeon RX 5500M is a notebook one.


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