Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs RX 5600 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking175not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.40no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 10Navi 14
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 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 cores20481408
Core clock speed1130 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz1845 MHz
Number of transistors10,300 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate199.7162.4
Floating-point processing power6.39 TFLOPS5.196 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs12888

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 4.0 x8
Lengthno data180 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s224.0 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 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 January 2020 7 October 2019
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 110 Watt

RX 5600 OEM has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 5500 OEM, on the other hand, has 36.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5600 OEM and Radeon RX 5500 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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