Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Radeon RX 5500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Dec 2019
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500 XT

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

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 5500 XT .
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396))vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders1408vs640
Compute Units22vs10
Core clock1607 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs88vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP130 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date12 Dec 2019vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    59.04 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    162.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better