MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC
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Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.37 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.71 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

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

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.845 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is 1.366 GHz.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

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

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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.

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 8G OC is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.