Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon RX 6900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT
Radeon RX 5500
9100
Radeon RX 6900 XT
27641
Radeon RX 5500
Radeon RX 6900 XT
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 14
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2019
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
2250 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
5120
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
720.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12.0 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
-
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2