Radeon Vega 7 vs RX 5500

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon RX 5500 with Radeon Vega 7, including specs and performance data.

RX 5500
2019
4 GB GDDR6, 110 Watt
22.80
+205%

RX 5500 outperforms Vega 7 by a whopping 205% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking248532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Power efficiency14.2111.38
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 14Cezanne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 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 cores1408448
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate162.453.20
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8828

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 x16IGP
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed14000 MHzSystem Shared
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 outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD65−70
+195%
22
−195%
1440p95−100
+197%
32
−197%
4K45−50
+181%
16
−181%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 22.80 7.47
Recency 7 October 2019 13 April 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 45 Watt

RX 5500 has a 205.2% higher aggregate performance score.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 144.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon RX 5500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Vega 7 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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