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Radeon RX 5500 XT
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VRAM
8 GB
CUDA
1,408
FP32
5.196 TF
Bandwidth
224 GB/s
TDP
130W
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 capacity8 GB25%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units1,4086%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency13/10022%
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 Spy7,920pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)3,420pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)1,040spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute40,800pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming22
Ray tracing19
AI / Compute17
Creator / 3D20
Power efficiency13
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 22 fps
1080p
39
1440p
19
4K
8
Counter-Strike 2avg 57 fps
1080p
95
1440p
53
4K
22
Fortniteavg 63 fps
1080p
112
1440p
51
4K
25
Battlefield 5avg 51 fps
1080p
66
1440p
53
4K
34
Far Cry 5avg 58 fps
1080p
86
1440p
58
4K
29
Valorantavg 140 fps
1080p
111
1440p
189
4K
121
Average FPS across all PC games
1080p
81fps
1440p
44fps
4K
26fps
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($169) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
1080p
$2.36
1440p
$4.26
4K
$6.58
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
People like that it sips power and stays cool for a 1080p card. The common complaint is it struggles with newer games and the memory bus feels too narrow.
Pros
- Runs cool and quiet under load
- Handles 1080p gaming with ease
- Eight gigs for modern textures
- Fits small builds without hassle
Cons
- Falls behind newer budget cards
- PCIe 4.0 barely helps performance
- Ray tracing performance is poor
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 1,408
- TMUs
- 88
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 2 MB
Memory
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 128-bit
- Bandwidth
- 224 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 14000 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1607 MHz
- 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
- 130W
- Suggested PSU
- 250W
- Power connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x8
- Length
- 180 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_1)
- Shader Model
- 6.5
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2.131
Verdict
Our verdict on the RX 5500 XT
The RX 5500 XT is a modest 1080p card that’s held back by its price matching faster competition.
Get it if you need a basic 1080p card for esports or older games on a tight budget. Skip it if you want to run modern AAA titles smoothly or prefer a newer, more efficient GPU.
Buy it if…
- You play at 1080p and want a cheap modern card.
- You need HDMI 2.0 for a 144Hz monitor.
- You are building a small, low-power gaming PC.
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