AMD Radeon RX 5500 (OEM) Tested, Almost As Fast as RX 580

[Tatty_Two]

The only downside is the amount of different models on the market. I miss those days when buying a graphics card didn't require you to actually find out what you're buying.

Agreed, it used to be simple, a new architecture/generation would be released, 4 maybe 5 models, each with a performance difference of around 15% inviting a price hike of 20% for each higher model in the series, life seemed so easy lol.

 

[ZoneDymo]

ah so it really is a super lame card, fantastic.

can we drop the prices of all cards by 150 - 200 dollars yet so things can be a bit more normal again?

 

[OneCool]

I bought it, AMD isn't involved, I can run over it with a truck if I want

I hope AMDs drivers are ready for that!!

 

[olymind1]

I already have an 570 8 GB, sadly i don't see any AMD card for 200-250 € which would be a proper upgrade for the 3 years old Polaris.

 

[medi01]

Doesn't HP actually call it 5300XT?

 

[jabbadap]

Doesn't HP actually call it 5300XT?

They do but that is obviously mistake. Card Heise.de tested has gddr6 memory and specs of OEM RX 5500:

AMD has already introduced it in October, but you can not buy the Radeon RX 5500 until today, at least not individually. In complete computers , however, it is now emerging , for example in the HP Pavilion TP01-0004ng , which we requested for test purposes. The RX 5500 could be an attractive GPU alternative in the price range below 200 euros.

The video card in the test computer has 4 GB of video memory and corresponds to AMD's reference design. On the product page for the Pavilion PC, HP mistakenly speaks of a "Radeon RX 5300XT", but our contacts at the graphics card manufacturers do not know anything yet.

Spoiler: HP Pavilion Desktop - TP01-0004ng

 

[Chrispy_]

With today's pricing there is a reason that the 580 and now 5500 would be called low end. Gone are the days of 199 max for low end 249 max for mid grade and 399 max for high end. The 2080 is $1000 the 2080TI is $1400 and 5700Xt are over $500 here in Canada.

Inflation plays a part. At the height of ATi vs Nvidia market competition 15 years ago, the mid-range sweet spot was a $200 card, which is $270 in 2019 money. This mid-range price point was a nice round number so it stuck around for a good few years as ATi and Nvidia jostled for the performance crown at each price point.

With entry level cards being $99-149 (eg Geforce 6200), and flagship cards being $399-499 (Geforce 6800 and 6800 Ultra) we can adjust for 15 years of inflation to give three equivalent tiers in 2019 prices:

Entry level:
$135-200

Mid level:
~$270

Flagship:
$550-675

If anything, the cards that the vast majority of people buy are cheaper than they used to be in relative terms. At the upper end of the market, prices are about what they've always been, with the exception that "Ultra Flagship" is now an additional tier on the Nvidia side which never used to exist (and still doesn't for AMD) as Nvidia now make and offer non-consumer silicon at to consumers with a gaming driver at eye-watering prices.

2080Ti cards aren't even close to a fully-enabled product. They're the most-damaged, defective, heavily-scavenged, and downclocked leftovers of the Quadro RTX server/datacenter silicon which sells for at least 4x what a 2080Ti does. Still, it's a win-win for nvidia because $1000+ is better than thowing that defective die in the trash, and enough people are willing to pay those prices that this isn't a one-off stunt any more. Need I remind you all of the $2400 pair of Star Wars cards a couple of years back?

 

[bobalazs]

multi monitor wattage would be? also would it cause raised gpu clocks?
also, 144 hz, would that be raised gpu clocks, i wonder.

 

[danbert2000]

This looks like a great card, especially for use in laptops. I can see this bringing the fight to Nvidia in laptop GPUs, where they have had a de facto monopoly due to the high power consumption of AMD's older chips. For desktop as well, this will likely create some competition where AMD was previously relying on old, hot cards to plug up the largest volume parts of the market. If AMD is able to get consumers to buy these instead of the 16 series cards, they will be able to focus on Navi top to bottom in the product stack, which should hopefully lead to better driver support and easier optimizations for new games.

 

[mechtech]

so where is the AMD RX 5600??

 

[AxilomX]

The performance looks promising if the price is right.

 

[Cheeseball]

This looks like a great card, especially for use in laptops. I can see this bringing the fight to Nvidia in laptop GPUs, where they have had a de facto monopoly due to the high power consumption of AMD's older chips. For desktop as well, this will likely create some competition where AMD was previously relying on old, hot cards to plug up the largest volume parts of the market. If AMD is able to get consumers to buy these instead of the 16 series cards, they will be able to focus on Navi top to bottom in the product stack, which should hopefully lead to better driver support and easier optimizations for new games.

It is already doing okay in laptops (mainly the MSI Alpha 15 and the new MacBook Pro 16"), but it can only compete with the GTX 1650. It seems to be around 5%-10% slower than the GTX 1060 Max-Q, but that may be because it's paired with the R7 3750H, which is still Zen+. I think if the 5500M was paired with the i5-9300H or i7-8750H/9750H (this is kind-of fulfilled with the MacBook, but I haven't seen any Boot Camp-Windows reviews of it yet), it would show its full potential and possibly match the desktop GTX 1660 Super.

 

[johnny-r]

I already have an 570 8 GB, sadly i don't see any AMD card for 200-250 € which would be a proper upgrade for the 3 years old Polaris.

I agree, should be slightly faster but not worth mentioning.