Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
Radeon R9 Nano
Memory: 4096Mb HBMDESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 Nano

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 5500
    130%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

30% higher gaming performance.
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 Nano

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500

The Radeon RX 5500 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon R9 Nano
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsFiji (Fiji XT CA)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs8,900 million
Shaders1408vs4096
Compute Units22vs64
Core clock1670 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs88vs256

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon R9 Nano
Memory TypeGDDR6vsHBM
Bus Width128 bitvs4096 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500Radeon R9 Nano
TDP150 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    256.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    512.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    8192.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    77
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    46

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    46
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    37

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    26
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    26

FPS (higher is better)