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Radeon RX 5500
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VRAM
4 GB
CUDA
1,408
FP32
5.196 TF
Bandwidth
224 GB/s
TDP
110W
Boost
1845 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute5.196 TFLOPS5%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s13%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity4 GB13%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units1,4086%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency15/10026%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy7,560pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)3,240pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)988spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute38,400pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming21
Ray tracing18
AI / Compute16
Creator / 3D19
Power efficiency15
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 18 fps
1080p
25
1440p
18
4K
11
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 26 fps
1080p
35
1440p
26
4K
16
Alan Wake 2avg 15 fps
1080p
20
1440p
15
4K
9
Forza Horizon 5avg 27 fps
1080p
36
1440p
27
4K
17
Baldur's Gate 3avg 22 fps
1080p
29
1440p
22
4K
14
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners love it sips power and stays cool for a 1080p card. The usual gripe is the 4GB VRAM gets choked in newer games.
Pros
- Sips power, runs cool and quiet
- Great for 1080p gaming today
- Plays esports titles at high frames
- Fits small cases without hassle
Cons
- 4GB VRAM bottlenecks modern games
- No ray tracing hardware at all
- Only PCIe 4.0 x8 bandwidth
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 1,408
- TMUs
- 88
- ROPs
- 32
Memory
- Size
- 4 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 128-bit
- Bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 14000 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Boost clock
- 1845 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 5.196 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 5.196 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 59 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 162.4 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 110W
- Suggested PSU
- 200W
- Power connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- Length
- 180 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12.0 (12_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
Verdict
Our verdict on the RX 5500
The AMD Radeon RX 5500 is a 1080p gaming card that’s fast enough for esports, but its 4GB memory chokes modern big-budget titles.
Get it if you need a basic 1080p card for older or less demanding games and your budget is tight. Skip it if you want to play modern titles or anything at higher settings, as the 4 GB memory is a hard limit.
Buy it if…
- You want an affordable 1080p gaming card for esports titles.
- You need a low-power GPU that fits in a small case.
- You are building a budget PC for older games and media streaming.
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