ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC
vs
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.85 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has 4608 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.34 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 21.57 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 72 execution units.
ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC GPU PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Navi 14 XTX GPU Chip Navi 21 XT
RDNA 1 Architecture RDNA 2
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 72
1408 Shader 4608
32 Render Output Units 128
88 Texture Units 288
0 Raytracing Cores 72

Memory

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.845 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 2.340 GHz.

1.685 GHz Base Clock 1.900 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 2.340 GHz
1.74 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.09 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 95 °C.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

130 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) 345 W
95 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
40 dB Noise (Load) 36-38 dB

Connectivity

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

241 mm Length 320 mm
127 mm Height 135 mm
42 mm Width 62 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1610 g
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC was released in Q3/2019.

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT published in Q1/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

RX5500XT CLD 8GO Part-no AXRX 6800XT 16GBD6-3DHE/OC
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2021
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 799 $
7 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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