Radeon RX 5600 XT: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 5600 XT provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 35.28% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 5600 XT sales 21 January 2020 at a recommended price of $279 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 1.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 5600 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking143
Place by popularity90
Cost-effectiveness evaluation54.96
Power efficiency16.12of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 10
Market segmentDesktop
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 5600 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 5600 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1130 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1560 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors10,300 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate224.6of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power7.188 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs64of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs144of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 5600 XT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 5600 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed14000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 5600 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon RX 5600 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 5600 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RX 5600 XT 35.28

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 5600 XT 13593

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

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3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

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3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

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3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

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3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 5600 XT is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD107
1440p61
4K36

Cost per frame, $

1080p2.61
1440p4.57
4K7.75

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 83

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 75−80
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 92
Battlefield 5 110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 104
Cyberpunk 2077 74
Far Cry 5 75−80
Far Cry New Dawn 85−90
Forza Horizon 4 180−190
Hitman 3 83
Horizon Zero Dawn 275
Metro Exodus 144
Red Dead Redemption 2 112
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 120−130
Watch Dogs: Legion 262

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 173
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 76
Battlefield 5 110−120
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 98
Cyberpunk 2077 63
Far Cry 5 75−80
Far Cry New Dawn 85−90
Forza Horizon 4 180−190
Hitman 3 83
Horizon Zero Dawn 272
Metro Exodus 140
Red Dead Redemption 2 94
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 158
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 70−75
Watch Dogs: Legion 248

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 75−80
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 62
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 79
Cyberpunk 2077 54
Far Cry 5 75−80
Forza Horizon 4 138
Hitman 3 77
Horizon Zero Dawn 115
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 141
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 84
Watch Dogs: Legion 35

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 88

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 65−70
Far Cry New Dawn 50−55

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 45
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 62
Cyberpunk 2077 30
Far Cry 5 40−45
Forza Horizon 4 200−210
Hitman 3 52
Horizon Zero Dawn 89
Metro Exodus 88
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 97
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion 242

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 69

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 35−40
Far Cry New Dawn 27−30
Hitman 3 36
Horizon Zero Dawn 107
Metro Exodus 51
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 46

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 37
Cyberpunk 2077 12
Far Cry 5 20−22
Forza Horizon 4 70
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 57
Watch Dogs: Legion 11

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 39

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 5600 XT's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon RX 5600 XT 100
Arc A770 96.2

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 5600 XT is GeForce GTX 1070, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX 5600 XT:

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Similar GPUs

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