author: Bart Swiatek
AMD Officially Announces Radeon RX 5500
AMD has officially announced Radeon RX 5500. The GPU will be available this quarter and will be weaker than the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT models, including GeForce GTX 1650.
VideoCardz reports that today AMD has officially announced new Navi graphics cards of the Radeon RX 5500 line. The company plans to launch three new GPUs - RX 5500, RX 5500 XT and RX 5500M (the last of which will be dedicated to laptops). The card will be aimed at people who do not want to spend too much money on the graphic chipset and are looking for a reasonable compromise between price and performance.
All three chipsets will have 128-bit bus GDDR6 memory, 5500 XT will have 8GB of memory and the other two GPUs will only offer four gigabytes. The presentation focused on Radeon RX 5500, so we know it will have 1408 streaming processors. The core clock will be 1717 MHz (1845 with Boost).
AMD boasts Radeon RX 5500 to deliver significantly better performance than Radeon RX 480 with low estimated power consumption (up to 60% better power to watt ratio). Lisa Su also presented its first benchmarks, which show that the product is much faster than the competitive GeForce GTX 1650 (unfortunately, we do not have access to slides from the presentation, but below we present tables published by VideoCardz).
Unfortunately, we know neither the prices or the exact release date of the individual GPU models - all we know is that they will make their debut on the market this quarter.