Radeon RX Vega 2 vs RX 5500 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking235not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation48.25no data
Power efficiency12.50no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14Vega Raven Ridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 December 2019 (5 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$169 no data

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 cores1408128
Core clock speed1607 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate162.4no data
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs88no data

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 x8no data
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed14000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2019 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 15 Watt

RX 5500 XT has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

RX Vega 2, on the other hand, has 766.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon RX Vega 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 XT is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 2 is a notebook one.


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