Radeon RX 580G vs RX 5500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking246not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.43no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14Polaris 20
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)15 October 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 cores14082304
Core clock speedno data1257 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1330 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate162.4191.5
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS6.129 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs88144

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 3.0 x16
Length180 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s256.0 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 DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 15 October 2018
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 185 Watt

RX 5500 has an age advantage of 11 months, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 68.2% lower power consumption.

RX 580G, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon RX 580G. We've got no test results to judge.


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