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AMD have announced the Radeon RX 5500 available later this year

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AMD have now formally lifted the lid on their next GPU with the announcement of the Radeon RX 5500 coming later this year. This new GPU is using their RDNA architecture, based on their 7nm process technology. From what AMD say, they expect it to give you around "1.6X" higher performance-per-watt when compared with the previous Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.

The Radeon RX 5500 will have both a mobile and desktop model, each of them sharing 22 Compute Units, 1,408 Stream Processors and a 128-bit Memory Interface. I've listed where they're actually different in the specifications AMD shared below:

Radeon™ RX 5500M GPU (mobile)

  • TFLOPS: Up to 4.6
  • GDDR6: 4GB
  • Game Clock11 (MHz): Up to 1,448
  • Boost Clock12 (MHz): Up to 1,645

Radeon™ RX 5500 series (desktop)

  • TFLOPS: Up to 5.2
  • GDDR6: Up to 8GB
  • Game Clock11 (MHz): Up to 1,717
  • Boost Clock12 (MHz): Up to 1,845

For some clarifications:

  • Game clock is the expected GPU clock when running typical gaming applications, set to typical TGP (Total Graphics Power). Actual individual game clock results may vary.
  • Boost Clock Frequency is the maximum frequency achievable on the GPU running a bursty workload. Boost clock achievability, frequency, and sustainability will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to: thermal conditions and variation in applications and workloads.

As for the availability, you've got to wait but not actually very long. AMD said the MSI Alpha 15 laptop with the Radeon RX 5500M GPU will be out later this month and some pre-built systems from HP, Lenovo and more will be out in November.

For standalone GPUs from AMD board partners, they're only giving an ambiguous "Q4 2019" and they're not currently mentioning prices either so it remains to be seen just how competitive they will be against NVIDIA.

You can see the full details in their press release here.

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Koopacabras Oct 7, 2019
I´ll just leave this here


update more benchmarks



hmm interesting so it is faster than a 570.:O (a 480 and 570 have roughly the same performance more or less).


Last edited by Koopacabras on 7 October 2019 at 5:21 pm UTC
omer666 Oct 7, 2019
If it's going to be compared to gtx 1650, we need to know the TDP...
haspadar Oct 7, 2019
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: DesumLovely. Though, considering Vega cards are STILL crashing right and left under Linux, I dunno how much excitement I can muster up.

Never had any crashes with Vega in many months already. Rock solid overall. Navi on the other hand is still quite raw.

This bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110777 chases me on Vega 56 starting from 5.0. Only amdgpu.dpm=0 helps.
TheRiddick Oct 7, 2019
Quoting: XpanderMeh :( i was hoping for 5800 or 5900

I dont get the numbering, Navi 10 is higher end and Navi 14 is weaker, what?

Its a pipe dream, NAVI 5800 / 5900 is going to struggle against the 1080TI....
haspadar Oct 7, 2019
Quoting: Erzfeind
Quoting: DesumLovely. Though, considering Vega cards are STILL crashing right and left under Linux, I dunno how much excitement I can muster up.

I don´t have a single problem with my Vega 56 (running Tumbleweed).

I have Vega 56 in Acer Predator and have this bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110777

Don't you have it?
TheRiddick Oct 7, 2019
What the hell is a Acer Predator? a laptop? if so then I'm not surprised your having issues. Video cards + linux + laptops seem to always have something going wrong.
Shmerl Oct 7, 2019
Quoting: TheRiddickIts a pipe dream, NAVI 5800 / 5900 is going to struggle against the 1080TI....

What's the point? 5700 XT already beats that. Higher end than that would be somewhere in 2080 territory already.
TheRiddick Oct 8, 2019
Quoting: ShmerlWhat's the point? 5700 XT already beats that. Higher end than that would be somewhere in 2080 territory already.

This is false. I hear this allot but the 5700XT is around %10 slower at the very least!
Shmerl Oct 8, 2019
Quoting: TheRiddickThis is false. I hear this allot but the 5700XT is around %10 slower at the very least!

It's surely more performant. Even Phoronix published comparative benchmarks in the past that demonstrated it. Hardware wise it's just better, so it would be surprising for it to perform worse, unless there is some driver issue that's causing a bottleneck or other such skewed case.

UPDATE:

Just noticed you meant the Ti model, I mean 1080 above, not Ti. Here is Phoronix comparison:



With Ti, it's very slightly behind.


Last edited by Shmerl on 8 October 2019 at 1:46 am UTC
TheRiddick Oct 8, 2019
Those results can be quite skewed however, really you need to look at it on a per game basis.
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