Radeon Pro 5500 XT: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon Pro 5500 XT provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 21.65% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
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 14 GB/s are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated video 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 performance ranking | 236 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 5.63 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 14 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 4 August 2020 (3 years ago) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
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 cores | 1536 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1757 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 6,400 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 125 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 168.7 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | |
| Width | IGP | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
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 type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 14 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
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 Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon Pro 5500 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 |
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 performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro 5500 XT is Quadro K6000, which is slower by 4% and lower by 10 positions in our ranking.
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