Radeon RX 5500: specs and benchmarks

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Radeon RX 5500 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 22.79% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 5500 sales 7 October 2019. This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 1.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 180 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 110 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking244
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency15.01of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14
Market segmentDesktop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores1408of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Boost clock speed1845 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors6,400 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate162.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (GA100)
TMUs88of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 5500 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 x16
Length180 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 5500: 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 amount4 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed14000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 5500. 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL4.6

Benchmark performance

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


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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.

RX 5500 22.79

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.

RX 5500 8792

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

RX 5500 42728

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

RX 5500 28910

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 5500 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 RX 5500's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon R9 390 101.32
Radeon RX 580 100.75
Radeon RX 5500 100

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 5500 is GeForce GTX TITAN Z, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

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