Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs RX 5800 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated250
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data12.11
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 23Navi 14
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)4 August 2020 (4 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 cores33281536
Core clock speedno data1187 MHz
Boost clock speed1775 MHz1757 MHz
Number of transistorsno data6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt125 Watt
Texture fill rate369.2168.7
Floating-point processing power11.81 TFLOPS5.398 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs20896

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s

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 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 125 Watt

Pro 5500 XT has 120% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5800 XT and Radeon Pro 5500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5800 XT is a desktop card while Radeon Pro 5500 XT is a workstation one.


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