AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB Review: Navi at $200

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I believe that will be enough pointless arguing for this thread. If you wish to continue to bicker, please do so via PM. Thank you.

 

[OptimumSlinky]

I think it's pretty clear at this point that AMD's GPU division has no interest in pursuing aggressive pricing strategies like Ryzen did. Ultimately, it's disappointing. I really like the RX 5700 performance-wise, and at $280-$299 it would have been a deathblow. Instead, we have it at $350-$380, where it's merely competitive.

Similarly, this RX 5500 XT isn't bad per se (and given how loud my RX 580 is, I like the idea of equal performance with greater efficiency in principle) but again, the price is off. At $160 for the 8GB, it would be the new budget king; at $200, it becomes a "why bother" kind of card when RX 580s and 590s are sub-$200.

 

[Markoni35]

Forget about Radeon RX 5500 XT.
Or even 5700 XT. They are overrated.

I have something better for you. An almost unused Radeon 9700 XT in excellent condition.
Yeah, that's like 4 generations in the future. Skip 5700, 6700, 7700, 8700 and jump directly to 9700.

How much it costs you ask? For you I have a special price. Just... wait for it... 50% of the price of RX 5700 XT. Yeah, it's possible. Somehow it's possible. But hurry up, because quantities are limited. Get your Radeon 9700 XT today and play your games at a completely different level from 5700 XT.


(hey, I said different level, didn't say "faster")

 

[Shirley Dulcey]

I predict a price cut as soon as all the leftover RX 580 and RX 590 cards are out of the channel. Right now they have to be priced above those older cards or else the previous models would never sell.

 

[msroadkill612]

My conclusion is very different.

For what it is, I like it a lot.

its a modern ~equal to the classic rx580 with more civilised power consumption.

not a single mention of pcie 4 that I saw? It seems an odd omission? Users can free 8x pcie lanes, yet still have the usual 16GB/s pcie gpu link.

pricing is a temporal thing so meh - it seems to rate well on cost per frame?

as u say, they are not using much silicon for the price. The 5500xt card's BOM firther reduces substantially w/ 8 lanes & gddr5?. I suspect there is plenty of room to compete w/ sharper prices.

a big fear for me w/ a new card would be finding 6GB doessnt cut it on new games I like.

 

[msroadkill612]

In the same wiki article:

"RAM on the video card:
Video cards always have a certain amount of RAM. This RAM is where the bitmap of image data is "buffered" for display. The term frame buffer is thus often used interchangeably when referring to this RAM.
The CPU sends image updates to the video card. The video processor on the card forms a picture of the screen image and stores it in the frame buffer as a large bitmap in RAM. The bitmap in RAM is used by the card to continually refresh the screen image."

As in the word "compression", Nvidia stored compressed images in the VRAM, thus reducing the amount of data transfer between VRAM and GPU, boosting the overall effective bandwidth. It even said in the Nvidia white paper "the combination of raw bandwidth increases, and traffic reduction translates to a 50% increase in effective bandwidth on Turing compared to Pascal"

It will be clear if you look for any side by side comparison between AMD and Nvidia, as Nvidia will use less VRAM, sometimes only a few MB but sometimes can be as much as 1GB. Could this be the reason why some people say AMD has better colors than Nvidia ?

So yeah some games can choke the hell out of 5500XT 4GB while 1650S perform just fine.

wow - yes it is very pronounced to me.