AMD is set to introduce a new mid-range Radeon graphics card very soon.

AMD Radeon RX 5500 coming this quarter

We have just been informed of an AMD press call regarding upcoming Radeon graphics cards. The plural form comes from desktop and mobile variants, as AMD is set to introduce Radeon RX 5500 for both desktop and mobile markets.

The RX 5500 is a mid-range solution positioned against the GTX 1650 graphics card from NVIDIA. This is a 128-bit graphics card, likely to replace the existing RX 560 models.

The mid-range segment is getting some fresh air this month. This is where we remind you about GTX 1660 SUPER and GTX 1650 Ti, both rumored yet-to-be-released cards from NVIDIA. ITHome today reported that the former will be available on October 29th.

The interesting piece of information is about the memory, although unconfirmed, we have heard that RX 5500 may offer up to 8GB of GDDR6 memory. Unfortunately, this is still tied with a 128-bit bus, so the bandwidth increase will come from a higher frequency, not the width of the bus itself.

According to our information, the RX 5500 series will indeed feature 22 Compute Units, which translates into 1408 Stream Processors. This was earlier reported by Wccftech. This would mean that RX 5500 is to feature the same core count as GTX 1660.

During the call, AMD has been using Polaris-based RX 480 for comparison. We do not know the price yet, but one could guess it will not be higher than 200 USD. The Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon RX 5500 Mobile will not be available till later this quarter (no exact date was given).

AMD Radeon Mid-Range Series RX 460 RX 560 RX 5500 XT GPU 14nm Polaris 11 14nm Polaris 21 7nm Navi 14 (TBC) Stream Processors 896 1024 1408 Base Clock 1090 MHz 1175 MHz TBC Boost Clock 1200 MHz 1275 MHz TBC Memory Speed 7 Gbps 7 Gbps TBC Memory 2GB GDDR5 2/4GB GDDR5 4/8GB GDDR6 Memory Bus 128-bit 128-bit 128-bit

2019 Mid-range Graphics Cards Status GPU Memory GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Released Turing TU116-400 6GB GDDR6 12Gbps GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Rumored Turing TU116-300 6GB GDDR6 14Gbps GeForce GTX 1660 Released Turing TU116-300 6GB GDDR5 8Gbps GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER Rumored Turing TU117-? 4GB GDDR5 8Gbps GeForce GTX 1650 Released Turing TU117-300 4GB GDDR5 8Gbps Radeon RX 5500 XT Rumored RDNA Navi 14 (TBC) 4/8GB GDDR6 14Gbps (TBC)