VIA S3G UniChrome Pro II vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking235not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation48.18no data
Power efficiency12.51no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)no data
GPU code nameNavi 14Zoetrope
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 December 2019 (5 years ago)1 October 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1408no data
Core clock speed1607 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1845 MHz200 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattno data
Texture fill rate162.4no data
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs88no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8no data
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed14000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2019 1 October 2006

RX 5500 XT has an age advantage of 13 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 XT and VIA S3G UniChrome Pro II. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 XT is a desktop card while VIA S3G UniChrome Pro II is a notebook one.


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