PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G
vs
ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G 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 ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX has 1792 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.49 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.93 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G GPU ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 6600
Navi 14 XTX GPU Chip Navi 23 XL
RDNA 1 Architecture RDNA 2
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
1408 Shader 1792
32 Render Output Units 64
88 Texture Units 112
0 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G has a turbo clock of 1.845 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX is 2.491 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.626 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 2.491 GHz
1.72 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.04 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G 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 ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

130 W TDP 132 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
45 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX 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
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX 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 No LED lighting

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 PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

180 mm Length 179 mm
123 mm Height 124 mm
38 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, PowerColor Radeon RX 5500 XT ITX 4G was released in Q3/2019.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6600 Challenger ITX published in Q4/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

AXRX 5500 XT 4GBD6-DH Part-no RX6600 CLI 8G
Q3/2019 Release date Q4/2021
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 329 $ (Reference)
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.

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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