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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs 5500 XT

Radeon RX 6500 XT
VS
Radeon RX 5500 XT
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Navi 24
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Navi 14

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6500 XT with 1024 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older 5500 XT that utilizes 1408 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
4 GB GDDR6
VS
4 GB GDDR6
22.7
(Mediocre)
Value Index
46.7
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 5500 XT over RX 6500 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 21% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (53K vs 43K)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5500 XT
  • Has 56% higher memory bandwidth: 224 vs 143.9 GB/s
  • Has 38% more shading units (1408 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6500 XT
vs
RX 5500 XT

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
22
81
42
35
17
The Witcher 3
60
50
28
14
57
45
27
15
Counter-Strike 2
95
67
44
18
89
61
40
16
Far Cry 6
64
54
40
16
64
52
35
19
Hogwarts Legacy
36
28
21
12
37
26
19
10
CoD: Modern Warfare III
54
42
33
18
51
42
31
19
Ghost of Tsushima
39
29
21
10
35
29
20
9
Cyberpunk 2077
36
30
18
-
34
33
16
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
70
61
36
19
68
57
35
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 57
1080p Ultra 45 43
1440p Ultra 30 29
4K Ultra 15 14
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6500 XT +8%
4763
RX 5500 XT
4416
Time Spy 4942 4852
Solar Bay 20010 -
Port Royal 368 -
Fire Strike 15575 14381
Wild Life Extreme 8990 9510
Night Raid 65355 60060
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6500 XT +21%
53081
RX 5500 XT
43831
Background Blur 130.3 img/sec 93.3 img/sec
Face Detection 70.1 img/sec 48.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.59 Gpixels/sec 1.68 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.21 Gpixels/sec 2.43 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.02 Gpixels/sec 1.99 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.48 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 223 Gpixels/sec 144.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7470.5 FPS 5990 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6500 XT
2030
RX 5500 XT +35%
2731

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6500 XT +6%
9617
RX 5500 XT
9047
G2D Mark 817 775
DirectX 11 90 FPS 54 FPS
DirectX 12 38 FPS 40 FPS
GPU Compute 4296 Ops/s 4314 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3351 & 4145 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6500 XT
424.41
RX 5500 XT +19%
502.97
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 119 & 165 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6500 XT +9%
10359
RX 5500 XT
9492
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6500 XT +13%
12861
RX 5500 XT
11381
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6500 XT +6%
7842
RX 5500 XT
7407
Image Classification (SP) 3867 3640
Image Segmentation (HP) 5136 4585
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11758 11173
Face Detection (HP) 14844 12599
Pose Estimation (Q) 42787 39745
Text Classification (SP) 1986 1739
Machine Translation (HP) 2665 3457
Object Detection (SP) 4251 3801
Depth Estimation (Q) 19707 18563
Style Transfer (SP) 101802 83214
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6500 XT and 5500 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 19, 2022 December 12, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $169
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 1.0
GPU Codename Navi 24 Navi 14
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 - GeForce GTX 1650
Successor - - Radeon RX 6500 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i5 9400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (79th and 82nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2310 MHz 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 2815 MHz 1845 MHz
Shading Units 1024 1408
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 88
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 59 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTexel/s 162 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6500 XT +12%
5.8 TFLOPS
RX 5500 XT
5.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 107 W 130 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 7 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 158 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 6 billion
Transistor Density 46.73 MTr/mm² 37.97 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 2248 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6500 XT
143.9 GB/s
RX 5500 XT +56%
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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