RTX A2000 vs Radeon RX 5500 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated141
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data85.89
Power efficiencyno data34.77
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 14GA106
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)10 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

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 cores14083328
Core clock speed1500 MHz562 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate162.4124.8
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS7.987 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs88104
Tensor Coresno data104
Ray Tracing Coresno data26

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length180 mm167 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s288.0 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 DisplayPort4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 10 August 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 70 Watt

RX 5500 OEM has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX A2000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 57.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 OEM and RTX A2000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 OEM is a desktop card while RTX A2000 is a workstation one.


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