Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB |Review| Hashrate| Test | Specs |Pros & Cons

Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB: Review |Hashrate||Test| Specs |Hashrate | Pros and Cons | CPU performance – After trying the Radeon RX 5500 XT in 4GB version, we tested the variant with more memory, 8GB of GDDR6. Also in this case we put on the test bench a Sapphire Pulse model, identical in all respects to the 4GB version. We recall the specifications of the new AMD proposal.

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1 Specification : Hashrate

2 Test configuration

3 Video cards compared

4 Performance Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

5 Consumption, temperatures and noise

6 Conclusions

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The Radeon RX 5500 XT is based on one GPU call Ships 14, which has its roots in architecture Radeon DNA (RDNA). Like the other Navi cards, this one too does not support ray tracing at the moment and it has no acceleration units dedicated to technology. The graphics processor is produced with process a 7 nanometers, it has 6.4 billion transistors and supports PCIe 4.0 – the die has a size of 158 mm2, less than the 221 mm2 of the Polaris GPU of the RX 480/580 (14nm).

AMD says the performance per watt of the RX 480 is 60% better, with performance growing 12% against a 30% drop in fuel consumption. Inside the Navi 14 GPU there are 22 Compute Units, for a total of 1408 stream processors able to guarantee a computing power up to 5.2 teraflops (single precision FP32). The GPU has a base frequency of 1067 MHz, a typical frequency (Game Clock) up to 1717 MHz (the Sapphire Pulse we tested reaches 1737 MHz), while the boost frequency is 1845 MHz.

The card comes on the market with 4 or 8 GB of type memory GDDR6 which operates at 14 Gbps, connected to a 128 bit bus. As for TBP – Total Board Power – there is talk of a value of 130 watts. The 4 and 8 GB Sapphire Pulse RX 5500 XT has an 8 pin PCIe connector which however is required on all RX 5500 XT. At the rear there are three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI.

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Specification : Hashrate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is proposed as a card to play very well in Full HD (1080p), where the RX 5700 series points to WQHD (1440p). The price indicated at launch by AMD is $ 169 (4GB) and $ 199 (8GB) for the United States, and these are tax-free prices. As for Italy, AMD did not give official information, but the 4GB RX 5500 XT is on the market today at around 200/210 euros, while the 8GB costs 235/250 euros.

	RX 480	RX 580	RX 5500 XT	RX 5700	RX 5700 XT
Architecture	GCN	GCN	RDNA	RDNA	RDNA
Project	Polaris 10	Polaris 20	Ships 14	Ships 10	Ships 10
Productive process	14 nm	14 nm	7 nm	7 nm	7 nm
Transistor number	5.7 billion	5.7 billion	6.4 billion	10.3 billion	10.3 billion
Die size	232 mm2	232 mm2	158 mm2	251 mm2	251 mm2
Compute Unit	36	36	22	36	40
Stream Processor	2304	2304	1408	2304	2560
Base Clock	1120 MHz	1257 MHz	1607 MHz	1465 MHz	1605 MHz
Game Clock	–	–	1717 MHz	1625 MHz	1755 MHz
Boost Clock	1266 MHz	1340 MHz	1845 MHz	1725 MHz	1905 MHz
FP32 performance	5.8 TFLOPs	6.17 TFLOPs	5.2 TFLOPs	7.95 TFLOPs	9.75 TFLOPs
FP16 performance	5.8 TFLOPs	6.17 TFLOPs	10.4 TFLOPs	15.9 TFLOPs	19.5 TFLOPs
Fill-rate texture	182.3 GT / s	193 GT / s	162.4 GT / s	248.4 GT / s	304.8 GT / s
ROPs	32	32	32	64	64
Fill-rate pixels	40.51 GP / s	42.8 GP / s	59 GP / s	110.4 GP / s	121.9 GP / s
Memory	8 GB GDDR5	8 GDDR5	4/8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory clock	8 Gbps	8 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
bandwidth	256 GB / s	256 GB / s	224 GB / s	448 GB / s	448 GB / s
Bus	256 bit	256 bit	128 bits	256 bit	256 bit
TBP	150 W	185 W	130 W	180 W	225 W

On the market you will not see a reference card as instead happened with the RX 5700, but a host of proposals from AMD partners from brands such as ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX. Even the RX 5500 XT – like many other company cards so far – is accompanied by a bundle: in this case we talk about Monster Hunter World: Iceborne and three months of Xbox Game Pass. The game is worth around 50 euros, while the Xbox Game Pass is worth around 10 euros.

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Test configuration

To know how we test video cards you can read this article.

Processor	Intel Core i9-9900K (available here)
Motherboard	Asus ROG Z390 Maximus XI Hero (WiFi) (available here)
RAM	2 × 8 GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3600 MHz (available here)
power supply	Sharkoon Silentstorm IceWind Black 750W
SSD	Crucial BX300 480 GB (available here)
sink	Noctua NH-U12A (available here)
Buffet	Dimastech Mini V1.0
Driver	Nvidia GeForce 441.21 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2020 Edition (19.12.2)

Video cards compared

In this table, the specifications of the cards inserted within the graphs you see below. The entire Nvidia GeForce GTX 16 line, to which is added the new RX 5500 XT 4 GB, the RX 5500 XT 8 GB and the “usual” RX 590.

	GTX 1660 Ti	GTX 1660 SUPER	GTX 1660	GTX 1650 SUPER	GTX 1650	GTX 1060 6GB	RX 5500 XT	RX 590
GPU	12nm TU116-300	12nm TU116-300	12nm TU116	12nm TU116	12nm TU117-300	16 nm GP106-400-A1	7 nm Ships 14	12 nm Polaris 30
CUDA Core	1536	1408	1408	1280	896	1280	1408	2304
TMU	96	88	88	80	56	80	88	144
ROPs	48	48	48	32	32	48	32	32
Base Clock	1500 MHz	1530 MHz	1530 MHz	1530 MHz	1485 MHz	1506 MHz	1607 MHz	1469 MHz
Boost Clock	1770 MHz	1785 MHz	1785 MHz	1725 MHz	1665 MHz	1709 MHz	1845 MHz	1545 MHz
Memory clock	12 Gbps	14 Gbps	8 Gbps	12 Gbps	8 Gbps	8 Gbps	14 Gbps	8 Gbps
Memory	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR6	4GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5	4/8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5
Memory bus	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit	192-bit	128-bit	256-bit
bandwidth	288 GB / s	336 GB / s	192 GB / s	192 GB / s	128 GB / s	192.2 GB / s	224 GB / s	256 GB / s
TDP	120W	125W	120W	100W	75W	120W	130W	175 W
Suggested price in dollars (tax-free)	USD 279	USD 229	USD 219	160 USD	USD 149	USD 299	USD 169/199	USD 279
Launch date	February 22, 2019	October 29, 2019	March 14, 2019	November 22, 2019	April 23, 2019	19th July 2016	December 12, 2019	November 15, 2018

Performance Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

According to AMD’s statements during a briefing in which we participated, the 8 GB model guarantees an average performance 10/15% higher than the 4 GB version: it goes from + 12% with Borderlands 3 with high details to + 24% with Wolfenstein II set to Ultra as you can see in the following slide. Much, however, depends on the game, the details set and the resolution.

But which video card does the RX 5500 XT collide with? The GTX 1650 SUPER from Nvidia. The goal is obviously to beat it and at the same time to make the owners of the RX 480 and GTX 970 look at this new solution as a possible update. Let’s see how the card behaved in our tests.

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owners-of-the-RX-480-and-GTX-970-look-at-this-new-solution-as-a-possible-update.

entire Nvidia GeForce GTX 16 line, to which is added the new RX 5500 XT 4 GB, the RX 5500 XT 8 GB

The-Radeon-RX-5500-XT-is-proposed-as-a-card-to-play-very-well-in-Full-HD

the-RX-480-and-GTX-970-look-at-this-new-solution — the RX 480 and GTX 970 look at this new solution

Radeon-RX-5500-XT-8GB. — Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is based on one GPU call Ships 14

ASRock-Asus-Gigabyte-MSI-PowerColor-Sapphire-and-XFX — ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX

Radeon RX 5500 XT in 4GB version Now — Radeon RX 5500 XT in 4GB version

Nvidia GeForce 441.21 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2020 Edition

Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-16-line — Nvidia GeForce GTX 16 line

4 or 8 GB of type memory GDDR6 which operates at 14 Gbps — 4 or 8 GB of type memory **GDDR6 which operates at 14 Gbps**

AMD-says-the-performance-per-watt-of-the-RX-480 — AMD says the performance per watt of the RX 480

The 8 GB Radeon RX 5500 XT is almost 7% faster than the 4 GB version in our suite. It’s less than AMD says, but apparently we don’t have a suite of games that weighs so much on VRAM. However, some cases of excellence can be seen, such as FC New Dawn and AC Odyssey, where 8 GB give a good performance boost.

Consumption, temperatures and noise

To detect noise, we placed the sound level meter 10 cm away from the central fan and perfectly perpendicular to the board. These are not absolute measurements, performed in an anechoic chamber with all the necessary precautions, but only serve to be able to give a yardstick of comparison between all the cards that we will try.

As for the RX 590, the model in our possession is the Red Devil by PowerColor. We have noticed that it consumes much more than other RX 590s, such as Sapphire Nitro +: we are talking about 40 watts more. So the gap between the other boards and the RX 590 under load is generally less wide than what it seems from our chart.

The 8 GB RX 5500 XT typically delivers superior performance to Nvidia's GTX 1650 SUPER

RX-590-under-load-is-generally-less-wide-than-what-it-seems-from-our-chart — RX 590 under load is generally less wide than what it seems from our chart

What about the 8 GB version of the RX 5500 XT

Consumption is really low, as are temperatures. The noise of the tested Sapphire Pulse RX 5500 XT 8GB is really contained, and in idle the noise produced by the computer is chargeable only to the rest of the PC components since the two fans do not run.

Conclusions

What about the 8 GB version of the RX 5500 XT? We had already talked about it discussing the 4 GB model and we reiterate it: in the future, you’d better focus on the 8 GB version, although at present the 4GB model is also more than valid for playing in Full HD with high details.

More memory will certainly be useful already starting from the games coming out in 2020, particularly at the end of the year when the next-gen consoles will debut and the optimized cross-platform games will increase. Recall among other things that the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft will have next-generation AMD hardware, so we should see greater compatibility of the games with Navi solutions. All this without forgetting that the Radeon Software drivers seem to give a good performance boost during the year.

Also in this case we cannot criticize Sapphire’s personalization: the card has rather compact dimensions, it does not make noise under load, consumption is low and temperatures are normal. The 8 GB RX 5500 XT typically delivers superior performance to Nvidia’s GTX 1650 SUPER, but for now the difference is not such as to cover the price difference.

The gap is wide, we are talking about 180/200 euros for the SUPER compared to 240 euros for the RX 5500 XT 8GB. We believe that the card costs 20 euros more than necessary at the moment, but it has just been presented and therefore it is right to give time to availability and prices to settle down. Should it start to drop in price, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT could become a very interesting card, potentially a best seller like the RX 580 8GB.

We therefore advise you to keep an eye on it in case your budget is around 200/220 euros and you do not have an urgent need to change your video card.