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

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/07/2019 02:01 PM | source: | 43 comment(s)

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.

Radeon	CUs	Shaders	TFLOPs	GDDR6	Game Clock	Boost Clock	Memory interface
RX 5500M	22	1408	4.6	4GB	1448	1645	128-bit
RX 5500 (Desktop)	22	1408	5.2	8GB	1717	1845	128-bit

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vbetts
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#5717768 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:03 PM

Man if this is priced right this could be the next mid ranger. Wonder how well it will overclock, the RX 480 was a beast in that aspect.

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#5717770 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:08 PM

so, its not a polaris spin off as feared...
Good..

lets see how these Cards handle when Hilbert "Reviews" them... *looking forward to it..

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#5717771 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:09 PM

Man if this is priced right this could be the next mid ranger. Wonder how well it will overclock, the RX 480 was a beast in that aspect.

yea^...my old 480 can still play anything!....the longevity of amd's gpu's is astonishing to me.

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#5717774 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:18 PM

So many photos of pretty much the same angle, but, it is good knowing that this is Navi based, since that should substantially help with efficiency. I'd like to see the power connector (if there even is one). I'm trying to build a custom AIO gaming PC for a friend, and something like this could be a decent choice. Most other AMD GPUs are either too power-hungry, too big, or too slow to even consider, up until now.

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#5717778 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:27 PM

I'm curious if there will be one without a 6/8pin which you could undervolt and run fanless, wet dream of mine.

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#5717784 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:35 PM

Nice but too small.

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#5717786 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:44 PM

Man if this is priced right this could be the next mid ranger. Wonder how well it will overclock, the RX 480 was a beast in that aspect.

Could everyone please stop calling these midrange? It's absurd how brainwashed people are these days. RX5700XT should be the 250€ midrange card, not a 3 year old performance card...

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#5717790 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:52 PM

Could everyone please stop calling these midrange? It's absurd how brainwashed people are these days. RX5700XT should be the 250€ midrange card, not a 3 year old performance card...

Oh well, this is the direction marketing is going. I already noticed it several years ago with fast food meals here, instead of having small, medium and large many places started naming them large, xl, xxl and now cards are following the same approach, midrage, high end, enthusiast, ultra enthusiast.
Remember how Nvidia had xx30, xx40, xx50 cards and etc? Well now the product range starts from xx50 and that's the midrange, so in a few years I guess the entry GPU will be the xx70 and it will be an Enthusiast card for 400...

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#5717791 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:54 PM

RX 5500 series have Fury Nano's performance. That's 2015 stats.

4 years later, isn't good to call it mid range, but low to mid range at best.

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#5717792 Posted on: 10/07/2019 02:54 PM

Is it another "1080p" card, or can it handle 1440p, too?

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#5717797 Posted on: 10/07/2019 03:00 PM

According to AnandTech's info the OEM desktop variants are 150W and the mobile 85W, meaning there's going to be at least one power connector.

As this is still GDDR6 cards and the core is clocked even higher than the 5700 I'm not surprised to see that.

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#5717805 Posted on: 10/07/2019 03:12 PM

Could everyone please stop calling these midrange? It's absurd how brainwashed people are these days. RX5700XT should be the 250€ midrange card, not a 3 year old performance card...

It's not brainwashing or anything like that. This is literally how the market has been always. These cards obviously aren't meant for people who have older high end cards. Hell I wouldn't even say they're meant for people who have a generation or 2 gap mainstream card like the rx 480 or 1060, more or less meant for new builders. 5700XT is not a mid range card either, it's definitely a performance card. As far as pricing goes, new technology costs money. This is why at least on the Nvidia side, there are different options and price points. Obviously not everyone has $250 or so to drop on a new card.

RX 5500 series have Fury Nano's performance. That's 2015 stats.

4 years later, isn't good to call it mid range, but low to mid range at best.

At 1/4 of the power and heat. Again, this has been how the market progresses always.

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#5717814 Posted on: 10/07/2019 03:41 PM

t's not brainwashing or anything like that. This is literally how the market has been always. These cards obviously aren't meant for people who have older high end cards. Hell I wouldn't even say they're meant for people who have a generation or 2 gap mainstream card like the rx 480 or 1060, more or less meant for new builders. 5700XT is not a mid range card either, it's definitely a performance card. As far as pricing goes, new technology costs money. This is why at least on the Nvidia side, there are different options and price points. Obviously not everyone has $250 or so to drop on a new card.

indeed its not a good time to buy a video card now, as a 1080ti owner, i feel i can keep it until next gen console releasse, then again will see what the new games will required in term of gpu, until that anygame that comes out shsould run very good on older high end card, the current gen console graphic capabalities is already cap, so we wont need better gpu until console next gen and even then we will see if there is any ray tracing, bot console will be powered by amd gpu s

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#5717816 Posted on: 10/07/2019 03:49 PM

Why does AMD put normal fans on lower-end reference cards and blower-style fans on higher end ones? The only reason I can think of is helping their partners earn more on higher-margin cards.

Anyway I want to see bigger Navi, not these small ones. What is this, a GPU for ants?

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#5717817 Posted on: 10/07/2019 03:49 PM

Pascal was just overall hard to beat, even for Nvidia. Doesn't help either that Pascal had a longer run than what Nvidia gpu's traditionally had.

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