Compare RX 5500 XT 4GB vs RX 580 vs RX 480 Benchmarks

Game Performance at selected quality settings

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 4GB / i7-8700K

At 1440p, RX 5500 XT 4GB can hit 50-60 fps on pretty much everything at ultra, just without antialiasing, less ambient occlusion and turned down shadows. It is clear that the RX 5500 XT 4GB is a significantly more capable high-end card that can play AAA titles at 1080p/1440p with 50-60 frames per second. The price/performance ratio is excellent for RX 5500 XT 4GB against the competition in budget mid-range cards. With current 4096 MB RAM, the RX 5500 XT 4GB can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.

AMD Radeon RX 580 / i7-7700K

At 1440p, RX 580 can hit 50-60 fps on pretty much everything at ultra, just without antialiasing, less ambient occlusion and turned down shadows. It is clear that the RX 580 is a significantly more capable high-end card that can play AAA titles at 1080p/1440p with 50-60 frames per second. The price/performance ratio is excellent for RX 580 against the competition in budget mid-range cards. In terms of memory, the RX 580 's 8192 MB RAM is more than enough for modern games and should not cause any bottlenecks.

AMD Radeon RX 480 / i7-6700K

At 1440p, RX 480 can hit 50-60 fps on pretty much everything at ultra, just without antialiasing, less ambient occlusion and turned down shadows. It is clear that the RX 480 is a significantly more capable high-end card that can play AAA titles at 1080p/1440p with 50-60 frames per second. In terms of memory, the RX 480 's 8192 MB RAM is more than enough for modern games and should not cause any bottlenecks.

Board Design

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
Length	7.09 inches 180 mm	9.5 inches 241 mm	9.5 inches 241 mm
Outputs	1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
Slot Width	Dual-slot	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
TDP	110 W	185 W	150 W

Clock Speeds

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
Boost Clock	1845 MHz	1340 MHz	1266 MHz
GPU Clock	1670 MHz	1257 MHz	1120 MHz
Memory Clock	1750 MHz 14000 MHz effective	2000 MHz 8000 MHz effective	2000 MHz 8000 MHz effective

Graphics Card

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Generation	Navi	Polaris (RX 500)	Arctic Islands (RX 400)
Launch Price	199 USD	229 USD	229 USD
Production	Active	Active	Active
Release Date	Dec 12th, 2019	Apr 18th, 2017	Jun 29th, 2016

Graphics Features

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2	2	2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5	4.5
Shader Model	6.4	6	6
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.1.82	1.1.82

Graphics Processor

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 4.0	GCN 4.0
Die Size	158 mm²	244 mm²	244 mm²
GPU Name	Navi 14	Polaris 20	Ellesmere
GPU Variant	Navi 14 XT	Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)	Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)
Process Size	7 nm	14 nm	14 nm
Transistors	6,400 million	5,700 million	5,700 million

Memory

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
Bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	256.0 GB/s	256.0 GB/s
Memory Bus	128 bit	256 bit	256 bit
Memory Size	4096 MB	8192 MB	8192 MB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR5	GDDR5

Render Config

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
Compute Units	22	36	36
ROPs	32	32	32
Shading Units	1408	2304	2304
TMUs	88	144	144

Theoretical Performance

	RX 5500 XT 4GB	RX 580	RX 480
FP16 (half) performance	10.39 TFLOPS (2:1)	6,175 GFLOPS (1:1)	5,834 GFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance	5.196 TFLOPS	6,175 GFLOPS	5,834 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance	324.7 GFLOPS (1:16)	385.9 GFLOPS (1:16)	364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Pixel Rate	59.04 GPixel/s	42.88 GPixel/s	40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	162.4 GTexel/s	193.0 GTexel/s	182.3 GTexel/s