AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 Comparison

The Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX Vega 11 occupy opposite ends of AMD's GPU lineup from the same mid-2019 window, and the database shows a matchup that is lopsided in raw graphics performance but surprisingly close in one compute workload. The RX 5700 XT is a discrete card built on the Navi 10 chip with RDNA 1.0 architecture, while the RX Vega 11 is an integrated Picasso graphics solution sharing system memory. Their percentile placements, 59 versus 56 against all GPUs in the database, sit within a few points of each other, but the shared-suite benchmarks reveal a gap of several hundred percent in graphics-heavy tests. Both parts are now end-of-life, and both carry the same recorded release date of July 2019 in the database.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU is faster overall according to the database?

A: The RX 5700 XT. It wins two of the three head-to-head benchmarks, taking Geekbench Metal by 336.9% and Geekbench Vulkan by 404.4%. The Vega 11's sole win comes in Geekbench OpenCL, where it leads by 24%.

Q: How do their average benchmark scores compare?

A: The RX 5700 XT records an average benchmark score of 16361 against 14385 for the RX Vega 11, a gap of roughly 2000 points in favor of the discrete card.

Q: Do they use the same memory?

A: No. The RX 5700 XT has 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus delivering 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The Vega 11 has no dedicated memory at all: size, type, bus width, and bandwidth are all system shared or system dependent.

Q: How large is the theoretical performance gap?

A: The RX 5700 XT delivers 9.754 TFLOPS of FP32 compute versus 1.971 TFLOPS for the Vega 11, roughly a fivefold advantage. FP16 figures follow the same 2:1 ratio pattern on both parts, at 19.51 TFLOPS versus 3.942 TFLOPS.

Q: How power-hungry are these two?

A: The RX 5700 XT is a 225 W discrete part requiring one 6-pin and one 8-pin power connector, with a 550 W PSU suggested. The Vega 11 is a 15 W integrated solution with no power connectors at all.

Q: What launch MSRP did the RX 5700 XT carry?

A: Its launch MSRP was 399 USD. No launch MSRP figure is recorded for the RX Vega 11, which shipped as part of integrated platforms.

Where Each One Wins

The RX 5700 XT is the clear choice for any graphics-bound workload. It wins Geekbench Metal with 74647 points against 17086, and Geekbench Vulkan with 68310 against 13543. Its dedicated 8 GB of GDDR6 and 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth mean it is not drawing from system RAM, and its 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs dwarf the Vega 11's 704, 44, and 8 respectively. Pixel throughput is the starkest contrast: 121.9 GPixel/s versus 11.20 GPixel/s, an order-of-magnitude difference that directly shapes high-resolution gaming capability. Texture rate tells the same story at 304.8 GTexel/s versus 61.60 GTexel/s.

The RX Vega 11 wins exactly one recorded benchmark: Geekbench OpenCL, where it scores 12525 against 9524 for the RX 5700 XT, a 24% lead. This is an interesting result because it inverts the theoretical compute hierarchy, and it suggests that in this specific OpenCL implementation the integrated part punches above its weight. The database also shows the Vega 11 holding its own in percentile terms, at 56 versus 59 for the RX 5700 XT, a reminder that percentile placement across the full GPU population compresses what are otherwise enormous hardware differences.

The Vega 11's practical advantages are physical and power related rather than performance related. As an IGP it occupies no slot, needs no connectors, and runs at 15 W. It is a solution for systems where a dual-slot, 272 mm long discrete card is simply not an option.

Architecture Differences

These two parts represent different eras and philosophies of AMD GPU design. The RX 5700 XT uses the Navi 10 chip on the RDNA 1.0 architecture, fabricated on TSMC's 7 nm process. The RX Vega 11 uses the Picasso chip on GCN 5.0, fabricated on GlobalFoundries' 12 nm process. The foundry split is as significant as the node split: this is TSMC leading-edge silicon against GlobalFoundries trailing-node silicon.

Density numbers quantify the gap. The Navi 10 die measures 251 mm² and packs 10,300 million transistors, or 41.0M per square millimeter. The Picasso die is 210 mm² with 4,940 million transistors, or 23.5M per square millimeter. The 7 nm part carries more than double the transistors on only a modestly larger die, though it is importantly Picasso's transistor budget also covers the CPU side of the integrated solution, not graphics alone.

Clock behavior differs fundamentally. The RX 5700 XT runs a base clock of 1605 MHz, a game clock of 1755 MHz, and a boost clock of 1905 MHz, with memory at 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective. The Vega 11 runs a 300 MHz base with a 1400 MHz boost and no recorded game clock, a wide range typical of integrated graphics that scale with thermal and power headroom.

Feature support is close. Both support DirectX 12 (12_1) and OpenGL 4.6. The RX 5700 XT records Vulkan 1.4 against Vulkan 1.3 on the Vega 11. Neither part has RT cores or tensor cores, so hardware ray tracing and dedicated ML acceleration are absent from both. Lineage also differs: the RX 5700 XT succeeds Vega and is followed by Navi II, while the Vega 11 succeeds GCN 3.0 IGP and is followed by Vega II IGP, meaning the discrete card actually belongs to the generation after the family the integrated part's branding evokes.

Specification Differences

The two differ on nearly every specification, so the meaningful contrasts are these:

• Form factor: dual-slot discrete card versus IGP, with the RX 5700 XT measuring 272 mm long, 111 mm high, and 36 mm wide, and the Vega 11 having no card dimensions at all.
• Bus interface: PCIe 4.0 x16 versus IGP.
• Display outputs: 1x HDMI 2.0b and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a on the RX 5700 XT, motherboard dependent on the Vega 11.
• TDP and power: 225 W with one 6-pin and one 8-pin connector, 550 W PSU suggested, versus 15 W with no connectors and no PSU requirement.
• Memory: 8 GB GDDR6, 256-bit, 448.0 GB/s versus fully system-shared memory.
• Render resources: 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs versus 704, 44, and 8.
• Compute: 9.754 TFLOPS FP32 and 19.51 TFLOPS FP16 versus 1.971 and 3.942 TFLOPS.
• Throughput: 121.9 GPixel/s and 304.8 GTexel/s versus 11.20 GPixel/s and 61.60 GTexel/s.
• Market positioning: launch MSRP of 399 USD recorded for the RX 5700 XT only.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

Only three tests appear in both parts' recorded suites, and they split 2-1 in favor of the RX 5700 XT.

Geekbench Metal is a rout: 74647 for the RX 5700 XT against 17086 for the Vega 11, a 336.9% margin. That is more than a fourfold advantage in a graphics API test, consistent with the pixel-rate and shading-unit gaps in the specifications.

Geekbench Vulkan is even more decisive: 68310 against 13543, a 404.4% win for the discrete card. Vulkan results align closely with the Metal result on a percentage basis, which indicates the gap is architectural rather than API-specific. The RX 5700 XT's Vulkan result of 68310 is also notable for sitting close to its Metal result of 74647, while the Vega 11 shows the opposite pattern, with its Vulkan score of 13543 trailing its OpenCL score.

Geekbench OpenCL is the anomaly. The Vega 11 scores 12525 while the RX 5700 XT manages 9524, a 24% win for the integrated part. This is the single benchmark where the RX 5700 XT's raw hardware advantage does not translate, and it is the only blemish on an otherwise dominant record. Notably, the Vega 11's OpenCL score of 12525 is its highest result across its three shared tests.

Context from each part's rival set sharpens the picture. The RX 5700 XT's average score of 16361 places it in a dead heat with the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M (16351, within 0.1%), marginally behind the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (16408) and the AMD Radeon PRO W7500 (16415) at -0.3% each, and -0.9% behind the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 at 16504. The Vega 11's average of 14385 is similarly clustered with its neighbors: 0.1% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN (14373), -0.1% behind the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M (14404), 0.2% ahead of the AMD Radeon Vega 11 (14352), and 0.5% ahead of the Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics (14315). Both parts sit in tightly packed clusters, but the clusters themselves are far apart, and in the tests that measure graphics throughput the RX 5700 XT closes the argument with triple-digit percentage margins.