Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 580

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
Radeon RX 580
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 580

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 5500
    100%
  • Radeon RX 580
    110%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

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 RX 580

10% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 580

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 580

The Radeon RX 580 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon RX 580
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)
Fab Process7 nmvs14 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders1408vs2304
Compute Units22vs36
Core clock1670 MHzvs1120 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs88vs144

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500Radeon RX 580
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500Radeon RX 580
TDP150 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs1 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 580
    40.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 580
    182.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 580
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 580
    5834.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    77
  • Radeon RX 580
    73

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    46
  • Radeon RX 580
    54

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    26
  • Radeon RX 580
    31

FPS (higher is better)