Unlike the Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT cards, the new AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT does not have a reference design – it is available only as custom-designed cards from AMD’s partners.

Here is a quick primer on the first slew of Radeon RX 5500 XT cards from ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX!

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT : The First Cards

If you want to skip ahead to the first twenty two RX 5500 XT cards, click on these links.

For a quick primer on the Radeon RX 5500 XT, scroll down. Don’t forget to check out our PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 5500 XT review!

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT : A Quick Primer

The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is basically the desktop version of the Radeon RX 5500M, using the same GPU with 6.4 billion transistors fabricated on the 7 nm process technology.

This Navi GPU has 22 Compute Units with 1408 stream processors and a 128-bit memory interface. The only difference is the Radeon RX 5500 XT has higher clock speeds and TDP, with up to 8 GB of GDDR6 memory.

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The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT designed to deliver 1080p gaming at 60+ fps for AAA titles, and 90+ fps for esport games.

To reduce costs, AMD opted to use a PCI Express 4.0 x8 interface, instead of the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. But if paired with a PCIe 4.0 chipset, it will deliver the same bandwidth as PCIe 3.0 x16.

Recommended : AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Tech Report + Video Briefing!

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Specifications

In this table, we compare its reference specifications against its more powerful brethren – the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT.

Again, please note that the RX 5500 XT is only available from AMD partners as custom cards, and could have different specifications.

Specifications Radeon RX

5700 XT Radeon RX

5700 Radeon RX

5500 XT Transistors 10.3 billion 10.3 billion 6.4 billion Fab Process 7 nm 7 nm 7 nm Die Size 251 mm² 251 mm² 158 mm² Total Graphics Power 225 W 185 W 130 W Stream Processors 2560 2340 1408 Base Clock 1605 MHz 1465 MHz 1607 MHz Game Clock 1755 MHz 1625 MHz 1717 MHz Boost Clock 1905 MHz 1725 MHz 1845 MHz TMUs 160 144 88 Max. Texture Rate 304.8 GT/s 248.4 GT/s 162.4 GT/s ROPs 64 64 32 Max. Pixel Rate 121.9 GP/s 110.4 GP/s 59.0 GP/s Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB 4 GB / 8 GB Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6 GDDR6 Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit 128-bit Bandwidth 448 GB/s 448 GB/s 224 GB/s PCIe Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8

ASRock RX 5500 XT Challenger D 4G OC

This is an overclocked 4 GB variant with a dual fan cooler, a 78 MHz higher base clock and a 20 MHz higher game clock :

Base Clock : 1685 MHz

Game Clock : 1737 MHz

Boost Clock : 1845 MHz

GDDR6 Memory Clock : 1750 MHz (14 Gbps)

(14 Gbps) Display Ports : 3 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1 x HDMI 2.0b

Polychrome SYNC

Dual Fan Design + Stylish Metal Backplate

0dB Silent Cooling

ASRock Tweak

ASRock RX 5500 XT Phantom Gaming D 8G OC

This is the 8 GB version of the Challenger card above, and comes with the same dual fan cooler, a 78 MHz higher base clock and a 20 MHz higher game clock :

Base Clock : 1685 MHz

Game Clock : 1737 MHz

Boost Clock : 1845 MHz

GDDR6 Memory Clock : 1750 MHz (14 Gbps)

(14 Gbps) Display Ports : 3 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1 x HDMI 2.0b

Polychrome SYNC

Dual Fan Design + Stylish Metal Backplate

0dB Silent Cooling

ASRock Tweak

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