Radeon R5 Graphics vs RX 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	243	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	14.38	no data
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name	Navi 14	Spectre SL
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	7 October 2019 (5 years ago)	17 September 2014 (10 years ago)

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	256
Core clock speed	no data	497 MHz
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz	720 MHz
Number of transistors	6,400 million	2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	162.4	7.952
Floating-point processing power	5.196 TFLOPS	0.2545 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	88	16

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 x16	IGP
Length	180 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
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	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	no data

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 outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	no data	6.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	no data	2.0
Vulkan	-	1.2.131

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 October 2019	17 September 2014
Chip lithography	7 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	15 Watt

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