Tuesday, October 1st 2019
AMD to Unveil Radeon RX 5500 on October 7
It turns out that the Radeon RX 5500 is arriving a lot sooner than expected, with VideoCardz reporting an October 7th product launch for the card. It's also being reported that the SKU will launch as the Radeon RX 5500 XT, with board partner GIGABYTE being ready with half a dozen custom-design cards, all of which with 8 GB of memory. In a separate report, VideoCardz also confirmed that the RX 5500 series will be based on the latest "Navi" family of GPUs that use the company's latest RDNA architecture, and will be built on the 7 nm silicon fabrication process. What's more, the RX 5500 will reportedly use 8 GB of modern GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory bus. A WCCFTech report predicts the RX 5500 (XT) will feature 22 RDNA compute units, which works out to 1,408 stream processors.
With these specs, we can see where AMD is going with the RX 5500 (XT). The company wants a viable successor to the Radeon RX 580 or even the RX 590, which it can sell around the $200-250 price-range, competing with a spectrum of NVIDIA GPUs, including the GeForce GTX 1650 and the GTX 1660. The card would target 1080p AAA gaming with high-thru-ultra settings, and 1080p eSports gaming at high refresh-rates. NVIDIA is already preparing a response to the RX 5500 in the form of the GTX 1650 Super and the GTX 1660 Super, which come with beefed up specs.
Sources:
VideoCardz (1), VideoCardz (2), WCCFTech
With these specs, we can see where AMD is going with the RX 5500 (XT). The company wants a viable successor to the Radeon RX 580 or even the RX 590, which it can sell around the $200-250 price-range, competing with a spectrum of NVIDIA GPUs, including the GeForce GTX 1650 and the GTX 1660. The card would target 1080p AAA gaming with high-thru-ultra settings, and 1080p eSports gaming at high refresh-rates. NVIDIA is already preparing a response to the RX 5500 in the form of the GTX 1650 Super and the GTX 1660 Super, which come with beefed up specs.
38 Comments on AMD to Unveil Radeon RX 5500 on October 7
I really hope that AMD will reveal their 220-280$ entries by the end of this year.
ryzen 3800x is on sale for 379 on amazon too plus two free games now... :( but i can't jump on it, i want to buy the whole system at once, all parts i mean, and 5700 xt just isn't powerful enough for my 1440p high refresh needs. i need 120 frames+!!!!!
Basically Ryzen is probably eating up their entire allotment of wafers and is multiple times more profitable than monolithic GPUs.
These low end parts are good for selling cut down dies...
The same way their CPUs are x300, x500, x700, x900 -> they seem to be going the fame way with the GPUs.
The supposed RX5800 should be RX5900 too...
All I really want from AMD at the moment though is to also announce fully working Navi/RDNA drivers on October 7th alongside the new 5500.
AsRock 5700xt was 376 USD last night, too.
Prices are subject to change and are in no way an indicator of what is or isn't supposed to be a successor. For example Nvidia is selling right now a chip under the xx60 name for 400$ when usually that was the price of xx70 parts. So, how does that work ?
Polaris went from mid-range all the way to the lowest end dedicated GPUs. Same will happen here, I don't see the problem, the prices don't have to align. Is it unfortunate ? Yes but that's what they have to do in order to get competitive margins on their products.