Tuesday, December 10th 2019
Sapphire to Launch RX 5500 XT Nitro + Special Edition with ARGB Fans - $259
Sapphire's upcoming take on AMD's RX 5500 XT graphics card has been spotted up for preorder on Amazon (availability set for December 12th), and it's a special one. Besides the usual Nitro+ edition, Sapphire will also be launching a fully customized RX 5500 XT Nitro+ Special Edition. Besides addressable ARGB fans, the card features what can be called a very interesting, reduced PCB design, with the shroud and backplate artificially adding length to the graphics cards so as to increase space for the dual fan cooling solution.There's something to say about the understated design of the graphics card, with a geometric pattern etched on the black shroud. This shroud is surrounded by gray metal on the edges which add structural integrity to both it and the dual fan system. The backplate also extends further than the PCB itself, featuring patterns and cut outs that give it a somewhat busy design language when compared to the understated front. It's definitely a looker, but it won't be so for everyone. A single 8-pin PCIe connector serves additional power to the 1408 stream processors on the Navi 14 GPU. No word on clock speeds, though it is an 8 GB version. Non-standard I/O will be taken care of by 2x DisplayPort and 2x HDMI. The card is now available for $259.
Sources:
via Videocardz, Amazon
38 Comments on Sapphire to Launch RX 5500 XT Nitro + Special Edition with ARGB Fans - $259
That said, Navi 14 being 45% smaller than a TU116, and IDK... I think that there's not a ton of the "Super" that Nvidia has at least to this point to keep-up binning based on whatever they don't have to geld in the memory controller to let them work on GDDR6.
I think if AMD/RGT want's to go aggressive they'll work from a $200 MSRP, but I think it will be like $220 MSRP and many cards will be $230-240 at release, but can start working prices down. Remember the RX 590 started a $280, while today if you spend $200 for a nice one you didn't shop around.
5500XT = 170~180$
5600? = 220~230$
And nVidia can go home from the 100 to 450$ price point... but I somehow doubt that this will be the case/prices
I somehow doubt that you actually did any od this,you dont seem to understand.
No worries, they have a lot of margin behind their products, as evidenced by the BF deals where online shops in my country offered nearly 30% discount and I am sure they still had at least another 10% margin for themselves.
This policy is not good for the distributors, they have no reason to carry such a high risk to lose money on expensive VGA with crappy performance.
It's mostly stock coolers with radial fans that direct the outgoing airflow to the back of the case.
Also don't forget there's a thing that's called thermal capacity. If a GPU wakes up from 0dB and starts blasting hot air at the cpu cooler, it wouldn't cause a dramatic "sudden" rise of the CPU temp. Air is not that effective and heating up 500g+ of aluminimum and copper takes some time.
But more importantly, the card could have been smaller. You did all that work, but forgot to take a picture? Convince me you're not lying. I don't buy strong statements like that in plain text.
200$ for entry level performance is pretty bad these days...