Radeon Vega 11 Embedded vs RX 5500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking245not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.43no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14Raven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)13 February 2018 (6 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 cores1408704
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate162.457.20
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS1.83 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8844

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 x16IGP
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed14000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 13 February 2018
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 35 Watt

RX 5500 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Vega 11 Embedded, on the other hand, has 214.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon Vega 11 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.


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