AMD launches Radeon RX 5500 in December

During the summer, AMD launched the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 graphics cards, which introduced the first completely new architecture in over seven years – Radeon DNA (RDNA). The models were followed up in October by the RX 5500 for the middle class, but initially it was only released for computer manufacturers.

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1 AMD’s specifications for the Radeon RX 5000 series

2 Read more about the Radeon RX 5500:

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Chinese ITHome now reports that the launch of the Radeon RX 5500 will take place on Thursday, December 12, when it will be available in retail. At the same time, it appears that AMD’s partner manufacturers are on the train and on the same day release their tailor-made models.

AMD has not made much of an impact on the performance of the Radeon RX 5500 or what it will land on in price. According to the report, the model from AMD’s will step in as a direct replacement for the popular Radeon RX 590, which could mean a price tag of around SEK 2,000-2,500.

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Early tests of the Radeon RX 5500 show that the performance is more or less identical to a Radeon RX 580, but to significantly lower power consumption. Compared to Nvidia, the model is at about the same level as the Geforce GTX 1060 (6 GB) and the newcomer GTX 1650 Super.

AMD’s specifications for the Radeon RX 5000 series

	RX 5700 XT	RX 5700	RX 5500
Technical	7 nm TSMC	7 nm TSMC	7 nm TSMC
Circuit	Navi 10	Navi 10	Navi 14
Circuit surface	251 mm²	251 mm²	158 mm²
Transistors	10.3 billion	10.3 billion	6.4 billion
Architecture	RDNA	RDNA	RDNA
Streamproc.	2 560 st.	2 304 st.	1 408 st.
Texture units	160 st.	144 st.	88 st.
Raster units	64 st.	64 st.	32 st.
Clock frequency	1 605 MHz	1 465 MHz	?*
Playing frequency	1 755 MHz	1 625 MHz	1 717 MHz
Turbo frequency (max frequency)	1 905 MHz	1 725 MHz	1 845 MHz
Computational power	9 754 GFLOPS	7 949 GFLOPS	5 196 GFLOPS
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	4 / 8 GB GDDR6
Memory frequency	14 000 MHz	14 000 MHz	14 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	224 GB/s
Power supply	8+6-pin	8+6-pin	8-pin
TBP	225 W	180 W	150 W
Rec. Award	$399	$349	?

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* AMD no longer communicates the base frequency of graphics cards as it is “uninteresting”.

It is worth mentioning that the graphics card both lacks the suffix “XT” and that the circuit is a somewhat scaled-down story. The graphics circuit is equipped with 24 computing units, corresponding to 1,536 stream processors, but has only 22 of these activated. Apple’s latest Macbook Pro is also equipped with the full-scale circuit which in mobile version is called Radeon Pro 5500M.

With the scaled-down graphics circuit and Apple’s latest laptops in mind, it’s no big deal that AMD will sooner or later launch a Radeon RX 5500 XT. The full-fledged circuit together with slightly tuned clock frequencies could give a performance boost of around 10 percent.

Finally, the graphics card will be available in two versions with 4 and 8 GB GDDR6, where the latter can be expected to cost a few hundred bucks over the 4 GB models.