Radeon Pro 5500 XT: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon Pro 5500 XT provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 17.83% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro 5500 XT sales 4 August 2020. This is a RDNA 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 125 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon Pro 5500 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking317
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency11.49of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date4 August 2020 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon Pro 5500 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro 5500 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1187 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1757 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors6,400 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate168.7of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power5.398 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs96of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache2 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro 5500 XT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
WidthIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro 5500 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1750 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
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Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro 5500 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon Pro 5500 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro 5500 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Pro 5500 XT
17.83

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Pro 5500 XT 7883
Samples: 26

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon Pro 5500 XT is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon Pro 5500 XT's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro K6000 102.3
Radeon Pro 5500 XT 100
T1000 8 GB 97.25

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro 5500 XT is Quadro K6000, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro 5500 XT:

Tesla P4 115.65
CMP 40HX 113.46
Quadro K6000 102.3
Radeon Pro 5500 XT 100
T1000 8 GB 97.25
T1000 96.92

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Community ratings

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