Inside the case of graphics having fun with enjoying playing cards, AMD’s owned the sub-$200 worth stage for years. Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 and 1660 assortment graphics having fun with enjoying playing cards couldn’t hold a candle to the value proposition of the Radeon RX 570 and 580, nor its predecessors, notably as shortly as AMD began bundling them with video video video games galore. These Polaris-powered GPUs are downright historic, nonetheless, and suck down obscene parts of vitality in contrast with trendy graphics having fun with enjoying playing cards.
Enter the mannequin new $169 Radeon RX 5500 XT, launching presently after being teased in October.
The Radeon RX 5500 XT brings AMD’s “Navi” GPU, constructed utilizing the corporate’s next-gen RDNA graphics building, to the tons. Navi debuted contained in the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT, which instantly grew to alter into our go-to concepts for 1440p gaming. Navi’s loaded with cutting-edge tech: The Radeon RX 5500 XT is among the many many first shopper GPUs constructed utilizing 7nm course of expertise, and to help the bleeding-edge PCIe 4.zero interface. It’s upgraded to ultra-fast GDDR6 reminiscence. The cardboard packs AMD’s newest and largest media encoders, and updated current utilized sciences that allow 4K, 144Hz reveals with out the necessity for messy chroma subsampling (although you gained’t recreation at wherever shut to these ranges with this humble graphics card). It’s tremendously extra power-efficient, too.
Nonetheless regardless of all these advances, and all AMD’s earlier wins with Polaris and Navi, the Radeon RX 5500 XT can’t lay declare to the mainstream crown. Nvidia’s just-launched $160 GeForce GTX 1650 Great areas up a tricky battle for the value differ graphics card market. Whereas AMD’s card is just $169, it’s nonetheless priced too excessive for the effectivity it delivers.
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT specs, decisions, and worth
As talked about above, the Radeon RX 5500 XT makes use of a cut-down model of AMD’s “Navi” GPU.
AMDThe place the Radeon RX 5700 assortment packed 2,304 stream processors into the $350 Radeon RX 5700, and some,560 SPs inside the earlier $400 Radeon RX 5700 XT, AMD’s mainstream-focused Radeon RX 5500 XT reduces that to 1,408 stream processors. The Radeon RX 5500 XT’s setting pleasant clock velocity all via play splits the excellence between the 2 RX 5700 having fun with enjoying playing cards, with a rated 1,717MHz Recreation Clock. A bug in AMD’s new Radeon Software program program program Adrenalin 2020 Mannequin prevented us from verifying that velocity beneath load, nonetheless must be mounted shortly after this card’s launch, the corporate says.
As in contrast with the “Polaris” GPU-based graphics having fun with enjoying playing cards that the Radeon RX 5500 XT replaces, the shift to Navi is a big deal, delivering all these snazzy new decisions together with vastly improved vitality effectivity. Nonetheless the change in reminiscence helps reduce vitality wants, too. AMD’s newest GPU packs ultra-fast, energy-efficient GDDR6 reminiscence. Paired with a 128-bit bus, it’s good for an full reminiscence bandwidth of 224GBps. For comparability, the older Radeon RX 570 with GDDR5 reminiscence hit the equal velocity nonetheless required a fairly a bit wider 256-bit bus to take movement, whereas Nvidia’s $160 GeForce GTX 1650 Great achieves 192GBps with its 4GB of GDDR6 reminiscence.
Each 4GB and 8GB fashions will potential be obtainable beginning at $169 and $199 respectively. AMD says that 4GB is the higher price-to-performance choice for most individuals, and it should ship an equal physique charges in quite a lot of video video video games—nonetheless not all. The AMD-supplied slide beneath reveals the 8GB Radeon RX 5500 XT outpunching the 4GB mannequin in some key video video video games. We have been despatched a 4GB mannequin for overview.
