AMD Rolls Out Radeon RX 5300: 1408 SP, 3GB GDDR6

[Nihilus]

I'm sure they could easily set a power limit to 70 watts or so to run it off the slot only for low profile variants.

I would certainly be interested in seeing this card run up against a 1650 in real world benchmarks from someone on YouTube.

To get 75w, you would need to reduce boost clocks to around 1450 mhz instead of the 1850 mhz of the 5500xt. Best case scenario would be 80% of the performance of the 5500xt if there are no vram or bandwidth limitations.

The 4 GB GTX 1650 already gets close to 80% of the 5500xt performance and that is the GDDR5 version. If someone is on that tight of a budget, they will likely find a used 1050ti. There is just no way for this card to win, even at $130.
Again, a 6GB frame buffer would have made it attractive to niche markets.

 

[chris189]

To get 75w, you would need to reduce boost clocks to around 1450 mhz instead of the 1850 mhz of the 5500xt. Best case scenario would be 80% of the performance of the 5500xt if there are no vram or bandwidth limitations.

The 4 GB GTX 1650 already gets close to 80% of the 5500xt performance and that is the GDDR5 version. If someone is on that tight of a budget, they will likely find a used 1050ti. There is just no way for this card to win, even at $130.
Again, a 6GB frame buffer would have made it attractive to niche markets.

Yeah I agree, the 3gb is way too small. I wonder how it performs though on Rise Of The Tomb Raider.

 

[Valantar]

Yeah I agree, the 3gb is way too small. I wonder how it performs though on Rise Of The Tomb Raider.

3GB is perfectly fine for this market segment. There's no situation in which the 3GB will be more of a bottleneck than the width and clock speed of the GPU itself.

 

[lightofhonor]

Why did you pay $166 for what is basically a 580

Technically a bit faster, but they don't really make a 580 8GB under 170mm long for SFF cases. There is a 4GB model, but wanted more than 4GB.

Also, a 580s are going for $150+ still, so why not get something (marginally) better?

 

[Nihilus]

Technically a bit faster, but they don't really make a 580 8GB under 170mm long for SFF cases. There is a 4GB model, but wanted more than 4GB.

Also, a 580s are going for $150+ still, so why not get something (marginally) better?

The Nvidia equivelant is the 1650 Super 4GB, bit it is hard to find under $180. The next step up is the 1660 Super, but that is well over $200.

Polaris is still the best budget options in most regions.