AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Radeon RX 5500M

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Radeon RX 5500M (23/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 64.0 Average
Gaming 13.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 128-bit
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz
Memory Size 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 1.0
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Fire Strike 12813
Night Raid 42057
Time Spy 4287
Wild Life Extreme 6440

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing No
Vulkan 1.2

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
1080p High 48
1080p Ultra 36
1440p Ultra 24
4K Ultra 13
CoD: Modern Warfare III 44372715
Counter-Strike 2 70483316
Cyberpunk 2077 302814-
Far Cry 6 52463115
Forza Horizon 5 72383215
Ghost of Tsushima 3020169
Hogwarts Legacy 29251710
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 55472816
The Witcher 3 48392111

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 14009
Face Detection (HP) 8964
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 2845
Image Segmentation (HP) 3023
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8505
Machine Translation (HP) 1920
Object Detection (SP) 3032
Pose Estimation (Q) 29278
Style Transfer (SP) 58664
Text Classification (SP) 1142

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
API OpenCL
Background Blur 89.3 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.74 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 50.3 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.91 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5898.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 159.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 1.0
Build Discrete
Case Laptop
GPU Codename Navi 14
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 5 5600Hor above
Released October 7, 2019
Segment High-end
Successor -Radeon RX 6500M
Vendor Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Base Clock 1375 MHz
Boost Clock 1645 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L2 Cache 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32
Shading Units 1408
Tensor Cores No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
DirectX 11 36 FPS
DirectX 12 30 FPS
G2D Mark 414
GPU Compute 2339 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Die Size 158 mm²
Fabrication Process 7 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 85 W
Transistor Count 6.4 billion
Transistor Density 40.51 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 5500M
Pixel Fill Rate 53 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 145 GTexel/s

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