Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon RX 5500 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)

GPU code name

Vega Raven Ridge

Navi 14

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2017

October 2019

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1200 MHz

1845 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

6,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1408

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

110 Watt

Texture fill rate

162.4

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12_1

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131