VideoCardz: AMD announces Radeon RX 5500 Series with GDDR6 memory

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VideoCardz seems to be first breaking news on an AMD RX 5500 presentation, along with some AMD supplied benchmarks.

https://videocardz.com/82162/amd-announces-radeon-rx-5500-series-with-gddr6-memory

Today AMD announces a new mid-range solution for desktop and mobile markets. The RX 5500 series will feature three SKUs: the RX 5500M, RX 5500 and RX 5500 XT. Not once, does AMD mention the XT variant in the presentation, yet that’s what the SERIES would indicate.

Throughout the presentation, AMD compares its new graphics card to Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 1650. The RX 5500 is meant to be better than both. In the footnotes, we learn that the card used for this comparison is the RX 5500 4GB. Therefore, we assume that the XT variant will share the specs with a non-XT variant, with an exception of higher memory capacity (8 GB).

The RX 5500 series will be the first Radeon mid-range cards to feature GDDR6 memory. A combination of 8GB G6 and 128-bit bus has never been used in consumer graphics before, but thanks to the higher GDDR6 specs, the maximum theoretical bandwidth will reach 224 GB/s, just 32 Gb/s short of RX 580’s bandwidth.

AMD has not confirmed the Navi variant used by RX 5500 series, but the speculation points towards Navi 14. This is a new chip with a die area of 158 mm2. Thanks to the 7nm fabrication process this should translate into higher power efficiency than the Polaris series (AMD claims the RX 5500 provides 1.6X performance per Watt over RX 480). It’s worth adding that the chip has more transistors than Polaris 10 (6.4B vs 5.7B).

This GPU will sport 1408 Stream Processors (22 Compute Units) for all variants of the RX 5500 series (including the mobile version). The boost clock will be lower than RX 5700’s at 1845 MHz, but the memory speed should be the same (14 Gbps).

AMD promises that RX 5500 series will be available this quarter, but no date was given, neither was the pricing.
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Edit:
Mainstream sites getting it now:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14949/amd-announces-radeon-rx-5500-series-for-desktop-and-mobile
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AMD has their page up now:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-5500
AMD Radeon™ RX 5500
GPU
Compute Units
22
Boost Frequency
Up to 1670 MHz
Game Frequency*
1845 MHz
Peak Pixel Fill-Rate
Up to 59 GP/s
Peak Texture Fill-Rate
Up to 162.36 GT/s
Peak Half Precision Compute Performance
10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision Compute Performance
5.2 TFLOPs
ROPs
32
Stream Processors
1408
Transistor Count
6.4 B
Requirements
Typical Board Power (Desktop)
110 W
PSU Recommendation
550 W
GPU Memory
Memory Speed (Effective)
14 Gbps
Max Memory Size
4 GB
Memory Type (GPU)
GDDR6
Memory Interface
128-bit
Max. Memory Bandwidth
224 GB/s
Supported Rendering Format
4K H264 Decode
Yes
4K H264 Encode
Yes
H265/HEVC Decode
Yes
H265/HEVC Encode
Yes
Connectivity
HDMI™
4K60 Support
General
Product Family
AMD Radeon™ 5500 Series
Product Line
AMD Radeon™ RX 5500 Series
Type
Desktop
Launch Date
10/07/2019
Additional power connector
1 x 8-pin
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Depending on price this could be really interesting. RX 5500 (non-xt) looks to be equivalent to the RX590.
 
Snowdog said:
What does mid range mean?

There have been leaks of PCs with a RX 5300 cards, so it looks like there will be something lower than this.
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Rx580 and rx590 aren't it. This won't be either. A 5300 will be even lower than low. Might as well get an igpu at that point.
 
Their relative performance slide is a bit silly. They're comparing the RX 5500 to RX 480...? Probably because it's a more favorable comparison than the RX 580, which is something that's still on shelves, but in reality what the RX 5500 will eventually replace.
 
SPARTAN VI said:
Their relative performance slide is a bit silly. They're comparing the RX 5500 to RX 480...? Probably because it's a more favorable comparison than the RX 580, which is something that's still on shelves, but in reality what the RX 5500 will eventually replace.
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I won't fault them too much for that. They do also compare with the 1650 which is very current and what they actually want to compete against.

Though I was hoping for a 24 CU part, that would be more competetive with 1660[ti], but with a 128 bit bus, that isn't in the cards.
 
The take home is that this card is simply a cheaper-to-manufacture performance equivalent to RX580/590 that also features lower power draw. It is unclear whether or not it will be cheaper for us to buy, though...
 
Worth noting that the "Raise the Game" promo (Borderlands 3 or Breakpoint) and Xbox Game pass applies to the 5500 cards, if they are priced at $170 or lower it makes it a pretty nice deal for anyone who wanted Borderlands 3 and had an aging card.
 
I'd consider midrange any card that is required for 1080p60fps seeing as that's still by far the most common setup for playing games.
 
mvmiller12 said:
The take home is that this card is simply a cheaper-to-manufacture performance equivalent to RX580/590 that also features lower power draw. It is unclear whether or not it will be cheaper for us to buy, though...
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Is it cheaper to manufacture?

It has more transistors than Polaris, and the cost/transitor is stagnant, and it uses more expensive GDDR6 memory.
 
Snowdog said:
Is it cheaper to manufacture?

It has more transistors than Polaris, and the cost/transitor is stagnant, and it uses more expensive GDDR6 memory.
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I assume a smaller node allows them higher yields per wafer (contamination aside), but I'm quite ignorant on the manufacturing process overall. :LOL:
 
Snowdog said:
Is it cheaper to manufacture?

It has more transistors than Polaris, and the cost/transitor is stagnant, and it uses more expensive GDDR6 memory.
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Definitely not.

The likely reason that AMD is launching the Radeon RX 5500 series is that the Radeon RX 500 series is not suitable for mobile use due to high TDP/power consumption.

The desktop launch is just a byproduct.
 
THRESHIN said:
Not like the other guys are much better :p

More marketing nonsense!
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Yeah, just replace AMD with Nvidia and you get the same results from slides. Who cares really, they are releasing something new that may sell very well in the intended range.
 
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