AMD Announces Radeon RX 5500 series Navi 14 - available next month

AMD today introduces its Radeon RX 5500 series for mobile and desktop markets. First off, AMD did not ship out any samples for review, and AIB availability is expected no sooner than next month or at least Q4.

The RX 5500 series, based on a 158 mm ² measuring Navi 14-GPU, is the first low to a mainstream range that actually offers GDDR6 memory (at a 128 bits wide bus). Several SKUs will become available with varying memory volumes up-to 8GB. At 14 Gbps the maximum theoretical bandwidth is 224 GB/s. The NAVI architecture based GPU will get 1408 shader processors with a game clock just over 1700 MHz and a possible boost to 1845 MHz. AMD continuously has been comparing the product towards Polaris, as it should offer the roughly same performance of say an RX 570. All SKUs including the mobile part will get 22 Compute Units and this has that 1408 Shader Processors, which includes the mobile version. AMD indicates a Q4 availability, we expect AIB board by next month though.

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Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the Radeon RX 5500 seriesgraphics products, harnessing groundbreaking RDNA gaming architecture to deliver the ultimate in high-performance, high-fidelity 1080p gaming.

The AMD Radeon RX 5500 series includes the Radeon RX 5500graphics card that will be available in desktop PCsfrom leading manufacturers and graphics cards from board partners, as well as the Radeon™ RX 5500M GPU for notebook PC's. Top system providers worldwide are embracing the new products, with HP and Lenovo™planning to offer Radeon™ RX 5500 graphics cards in their high-performance desktop gaming PCs beginning thisNovember, and Acer planning to offer systems with the cards beginning this December. In addition, later this month MSI is expected to launch the world’s first gaming notebook powered by AMD Ryzen™ processors and Radeon™ RX 5500M GPU.

The AMD Radeon RX 5500 series was built from the ground up to deliver incredible 1080p gaming, high-fidelity visuals, and ultra-responsive gameplay. Optimized to deliver incredible experiences on the hottest games, the Radeon™RX 5500 graphics card provides up to 37 percent faster performance on average than the competitive product in select titles at 1080p. For mobile gaming, a laptop configured with the Radeon™ RX 5500MGPUprovides up to 30 percent faster performance on average than the competition and delivers up to 60+FPS in select titles and up to 90+FPS in selected esports games.