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The PowerColor Red Dragon RX 5500 XT 8GB vs. the Sapphire RX 5500 XT 4GB Pulse with 46 Games

BTR received a PowerColor Red Dragon RX 5500 XT 8GB ($199 – Updated by PowerColor to $219.99) review sample on Friday, and we have benchmarked it using 46 games versus the ($169) Sapphire RX 5500 XT Pulse 4GB. Although the Red Dragon RX 5500 XT 8GB is designed for High/Ultra 1080P, BTR’s 46 game benchmarks were run at Ultra 1920×1080 and at 2560×1440 to stress it beyond its limits.

We already posted our Sapphire RX 5700 XT Pulse 4GB OC review earlier this morning and we will not repeat all the same information here. We are benchmarking the same cards, but now with the addition of the Red Dragon RX 5500 XT 8GB we are placing a special emphasis on comparing the performance of 4GB vs. 8GB of vRAM of similarly clocked RX 5500 XTs.

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The PowerColor Red Dragon RX 5500 XT 8GB

Although there is no AMD reference design, the Red Dragon RX 5500 XT 8GB shares the same specifications including the 1845MHz maximum Boost clock, but its game clock is set 20MHz higher at 1437MHz which also matches its core clocks with the Sapphire RX 5500 XT 4GB Pulse.

The specifications look good, it is fully featured, and the card looks awesome, so let’s unbox it and look more closely at it before we benchmark it.