In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon RX 5500 4GB are significantly better than the AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB.

The RX 5500 has a 495 MHz higher core clock speed and 64 more Texture Mapping Units than the RX 560. This results in the RX 5500 providing 138.6 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The RX 5500 has a 495 MHz higher core clock speed and 16 more Render Output Units than the RX 560. This results in the RX 5500 providing 34.6 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The RX 5500 was released over a year more recently than the RX 560, and so the RX 5500 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the RX 560.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The Radeon RX 5500 4GB and the Radeon RX 560 4GB have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The RX 5500 has 112 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the RX 560, which means that the memory performance of the RX 5500 is massively better than the RX 560.

The Radeon RX 5500 4GB has 1408 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon RX 560 4GB has 1024. However, the actual shader performance of the RX 5500 is 1689 and the actual shader performance of the RX 560 is 1306. The RX 5500 having 383 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the RX 5500 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the RX 560.

The RX 5500 transistor size technology is 7 nm (nanometers) smaller than the RX 560. This means that the RX 5500 is expected to run very slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the RX 560.

The Radeon RX 5500 4GB requires 110 Watts to run and the Radeon RX 560 4GB requires 80 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the RX 5500 and a PSU with at least 450 Watts for the RX 560. The RX 5500 requires 30 Watts more than the RX 560 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the RX 5500 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the RX 560.