- Today marks the day
where AMD have launched their 5500 XT,
coming in two variants,
both a 4GB and an 8GB
at $169 and $199 USD MSRP respectively.
Here at the studio, we've got the MSI Gaming X,
which I assume is going to cost a little bit more.
I actually don't know how much this card will cost exactly,
but with that aside,
let's get into the gaming benchmarks for you guys
and then we'll come back and talk
about everything related to this graphics card.
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So basically, what we saw in those gaming benchmarks
was, depending on the title, and also even the resolution,
you got different numbers for different cards.
For instance, if you wanted to play Fortnite,
then from the tests I did here,
the 5500 XT represents not just phenomenal value for money,
but also solid frame rates at Epic settings.
This is both the 1080p and 1440p.
Also with this gaming benchmark,
I noticed that the DX12 wasn't working that well
for the AMD cards just yet.
However, on the Nvidia side with the new Turing cards,
it did give a slight FPS boost.
So I decided to go with those settings
on the Nvidia side of things,
except the 980TI, that wasn't really optimized
for the new DX12 feature in Fortnite.
Though, moving onto Shadows of the Tomb Raider here,
this is where we went back to the Nvidia side,
the Super cards,
especially the 1660 Super performing really well
in this particular game,
both at 1080p and 1440p.
Though moving over
to Red Dead Redemption 2 showed us
that the team red cards,
the 5500 XT in particular was performing very well,
especially for the money
and we will get onto that benchmark soon.
For Honor both 1080p and 1440p Extreme settings,
we saw a solid performance from this 5500 XT,
and then moving over to F1 2019 on DX 12,
we saw yet again another solid performance from this card.
Though, next up,
I'll pull up some power consumption numbers for you guys,
where we can see the 5500 XT is doing pretty well,
especially for the frames it's getting.
It's doing a lot better than its predecessor, the RX 580,
which was on 14 nm,
and speaking of the exact specs with this card,
I'll pull up a little graph for you guys.
Well, we can see we've gone with 7 nm on the 5500 XT
and it's also got a sizable amount of shaders,
even compared to the 5700 XT,
and it's also got 88 texture mapping units,
as well as 32 ROPs on board,
and a 128-Bit memory bus, versus the 256.
And that's pretty much a halving of the bandwidth.
However, with the 8GB model,
they're pretty much doubling up the density
to give you guys that 8GB.
Though of course, what about overclocking the 5500 XT?
Here's where I ran the F1 2019 numbers
and the Super cards did overclock a little bit better
in comparison to this 5500 XT,
which, again as I said earlier before,
it was the Gaming X model,
so I'm not entirely sure how much it's boosting
over a regular 5500,
which I would love to get my hands on
and see what the differences are,
as this card really didn't overclock that much at all
and it started drawing a bit more power
than I was comfortable with, especially for the gains.
Though undervolting the card did show
some favorable wattage drops,
as well as giving us still very solid FPS
for what it was putting out.
Well, that being said, in relation
to the Gaming X model itself,
I'll pull up the next graph here,
where we can see the fan speeds relating to the noise,
and this is the first time
I've seen a card built in this particular manner,
where, out of the box, it went up to 40% fan speeds,
but it was extremely quiet,
but then after that, the fans just really get loud,
and so I'd recommend keeping this card, honestly,
at its 40% sweet spot out of the box,
and usually I find for most cards, it's 60%,
but we can just see with the noise difference
going from 40 to 60% that it just wasn't worth it
in terms of the thermals versus the actual noise.
Though before we move to a conclusion now,
we've got some new software features
that have just came out the same time
as this graphics card,
where AMD have pretty much overhauled
their whole Radeon software,
and me personally, I am digging
what they're doing with this software.
It looks really clean, it functions a little bit better
than the previous software, in my opinion.
And so you've got all your options in this software
to do what you could previously do,
but you've also got the extra feature called Radeon Boost,
which will essentially dynamically scale your resolution
to give you more frames per second
in fast action paced games.
However, one thing I will say about the 5500 XT is
it's using the same encoder still as a 5700 XT,
which is still very similar in performance to the RX 580.
And I'll pull up a comparison between the 5500 XT
and also the 1660 Supers encoders.
And I feel like the Nvidia encoder is giving us out
better quality at 1080p, 6000 kbps,
which is a very popular streaming option
for people on Twitch and other platforms.
Though basically now it's time
to sum everything up for you guys, with the 5500 XT.
Now one thing I would have loved to have seen
was the 4GB model come through here,
because I'll pull up the value for money chart,
and we see that the 8GB model
for a new card is doing really well,
and that's what we wanna see
when it comes to these new graphics cards.
We want to see value for money punching hard,
and we also want to see power consumption drop as well.
And so that's what you're getting with this card,
at least compared to an RX 580 8GB,
that's currently a very popular card on Amazon for $170 US.
This card, if it comes in at that MSRP
and it offers similar performance to what I've shown here
in the video today, then it's going to be a great card
for a lot of people.
I can see this thing selling quite well.
Though one thing I do know for certain is that
the Gaming X model generally commands a premium
over the MSRP,
so I'm hoping that it doesn't perform that much better,
because of where I put the MSRP on the graph,
in relation to the value for money.
But one thing is certain, is that the 4GB model
I feel is going
to offer a lot of gamers great value for money
for a card coming in at $169,
so I will try and get my hands,
in the next coming weeks, on the cheapest model
I can get off retail shelves,
and then we'll come back and compare that
to the Gaming X model here that I reviewed today
for you guys, and then we can come to a proper conclusion
on value for money.
But as it stands,
this card is definitely looking pretty good
from the numbers that I've shown here today.
Though, with that aside,
I hope you guys enjoyed today's video.
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If you have any questions or comments about the 5500 XT
that we reviewed here today, be sure to drop a comment
in the Comments section for us.
So, let's quickly move onto the question of the day.
This comes from Plasmancer,
and they ask, would this board work
with a Ryzen 5 2600,
and he's referring to the X 570 ITX
from ASRock, that motherboard, and yes, it certainly will.
Any X 570, regardless of its bios date, should work
with a Ryzen 5 2600 out of the box.
And there it is folks, the 5500 XT.
I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon.
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And also a big thanks to Nick and Klaire from Gear Seekers
for cross-referencing some of the numbers with us
for the 5500 XT because,
when it comes to things like Fortnite and DX 12 and stuff,
you've just gotta make sure that your numbers are okay
and they check out and it's not all in your head,
or there's no driver issues and stuff like that.
So once again, big thanks and peace out for now guys,
I'll see you next time.
Bye.
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