After the rip-roaring launch of AMD’s Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT, AMD at the moment are turning their eyes towards the 1080p finish of the best graphics card pool with the approaching arrival of their brand-new RX 5500 card. Admittedly, I feel we’ll have to attend till the launch of the inevitable RX 5600 collection earlier than now we have a correct GTX 1660 / GTX 1660 Ti contender on our palms, however for these of you on a good funds, the RX 5500 could possibly be the subsequent neatest thing for respectable 1080p gaming efficiency. Here’s the whole lot we all know thus far.
AMD RX 5500 specs
Based on the identical Navi / RDNA structure as its RX 5700 siblings, the RX 5500 is the newest AMD graphics card to be made with their 7nm manufacturing course of. For the cardboard’s full specs, and the way it compares to the RX 5700 household, see the desk under.
| GPU | Compute Units | Stream Processors | TFLOPs | Game Clock | Max Boost Clock | Memory | Memory Interface |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RX 5500 | 22 | 1408 | 5.2 | 1717MHz | 1845MHz | 4GB / 8GB GDDR6 | 128-bit |
| RX 5700 | 36 | 2304 | 7.95 | 1625MHz | 1725MHz | 8GB GDDR6 | 256-bit |
| RX 5700 XT | 50 | 2560 | 9.75 | 1755MHz | 1905MHz | 8GB GDDR6 | 256-bit |
It’s going to be obtainable in two totally different reminiscence variants, too – one with 4GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, and one with 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence – however each fashions may have their reminiscence clocked at 14.0 Gbps.
Of course, I’ll have to attend till assessment samples can be found earlier than I can definitively say the way it stacks as much as each its Nvidia competitors and AMD’s present RX 500 collection playing cards, comparable to the wonderful RX 570 and RX 580, however for now AMD are saying it ought to supply as much as 20% extra efficiency than an RX 480, whereas consuming 27% much less energy. That’s a efficiency improve of 1.6x per watt, if such issues imply something to you.
AMD RX 5500 efficiency
Fortunately, AMD have launched some different preliminary efficiency figures that are way more fascinating – as much as 60fps+ in in the present day’s high blockbuster games at 1920×1080, and as much as 90fps+ in esports games by their reckoning – though for those who learn the positive print of their benchmark outcomes you’ll see these speeds are solely achievable on Medium settings at 1080p slightly than something larger.
A tad disappointing, maybe, particularly for anybody hoping it will be a viable GTX 1660 killer, however nonetheless, when the 4GB RX 5500 can apparently handle a median of 92fps in Gears 5, 82fps in Borderlands three and 60fps in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, that’s not one thing that must be sniffed at, particularly when Nvidia’s GTX 1650 can (by AMD’s figures not less than) solely handle by comparability a median of 61fps in Gears and Borderlands and 47fps in Breakpoint.
AMD RX 5500 value
Of course, how spectacular these figures are in apply will rely very a lot on how a lot the RX 5500 is definitely going to price – which sadly AMD aren’t keen to share in the meanwhile. I imply, I’d hope that their comparisons towards the GTX 1650 would imply it’s going to land someplace in that £145-160 / $160-170 value bracket to make it a lower and dry competitor to it. Not that the GTX 1650 actually wants one other AMD competitor when their present RX 570 does such job of trouncing it anyway – simply have a learn of my GTX 1650 vs RX 570 comparability piece to see why.
However, it’s additionally doable that AMD are simply utilizing its superior efficiency to the GTX 1650 to make it look good, when the truth is it’s actually going to price nearer to a GTX 1660 across the £210-230 / $230-250 mark. We simply don’t know.
Then there’s additionally the opportunity of the supposed GTX 1650 Ti / GTX 1660 Super to think about as properly, each of that are nonetheless simply rumours in the meanwhile, however are apparently being prepped for launch at an identical time because the RX 5500 in a transfer not not like Nvidia’s earlier Super-fied gazumping across the launch of the RX 5700 collection. It’s just too early to say.
One factor we do know, although, is that it’s going to be a part of the identical Radeon games bundle because the RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT. That means both a free copy of Borderlands three or Ghost Recon Breakpoint, plus a free three month subscription to Xbox Game Pass for PC, which ought to assist deliver some further worth to it.
AMD RX 5500 launch date
It’s additionally too early to say precisely when the RX 5500 is popping out, too, as a result of that’s yet one more piece of data AMD are preserving near their chests in the intervening time. The solely factor they’ve mentioned is that the RX 5500’s launch date will fall someday between now and the top of December. Helpful, I do know. Still, I’d think about we gained’t have to attend too lengthy earlier than it begins showing within the wild, given it being formally introduced in the present day and all, and I’ll replace this text with extra data as quickly as I’ve it.
