VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	233	not rated
Place by popularity	96	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	48.75	no data
Power efficiency	12.70	no data
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	no data
GPU code name	Navi 14	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	12 December 2019 (4 years ago)	1 January 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$169	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	1408	no data
Core clock speed	1607 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz	121 MHz
Number of transistors	6,400 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	162.4	no data
Floating-point processing power	5.196 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	no data
TMUs	88	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	no data
Length	180 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	no data
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	no data
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	no data
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

12 December 2019

1 January 2001

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