AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Navi 14 Polaris 20
GPU variant Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396) Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)
Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Manufacturing process 7 nm 14 nm
Number of transistors 6,400 million 5,700 million
Die size 158 mm² 232 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 12th, 2019 Mar 9th, 2020
Generation Navi Polaris
Predecessor Vega Arctic Islands
Production Active Active
Launch price 169 USD
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 49 in our database
Successor Navi II Vega

Clocks

Base clock 1607 MHz 1257 MHz
Game clock 1717 MHz
Boost clock 1845 MHz 1380 MHz
Memory clock 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 256.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1408 2304
TMUs 88 144
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 22 36
Cache L2 2 MB 2 MB
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)

Performance

Pixel rate 59.04 GPixel/s 44.16 GPixel/s
Texture rate 162.4 GTexel/s 198.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 10.39 TFLOPS (2:1) 6.359 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 5.196 TFLOPS 6.359 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 324.7 GFLOPS (1:16) 397.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 180 mm 7.1 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 130 W 175 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Board number 109-D33257 C940
Part number 102-D33220

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.5 6.4

Other Features

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