ATI Radeon X1900 XT vs RX 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking248not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.21no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameNavi 14R580
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)24 January 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores1408no data
Core clock speedno data625 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,400 million384 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate162.410.00
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3216
TMUs8816

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 1.0 x16
Length180 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-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 typeGDDR6GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz725 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s46.4 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 DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGL4.62.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 24 January 2006
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 7 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 100 Watt

RX 5500 has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1900 XT, on the other hand, has 10% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon X1900 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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