AMD RX 5500 XT specs, pricing and availability

After plenty of leaks and rumours, today AMD is officially launching its next Navi/RDNA based 7nm GPU- the RX 5500 XT. We've already had the chance to review two custom-cooled versions from Sapphire and ASRock respectively. Now, we also have details on UK availability and pricing. 

In our own review, we found that the RX 5500 XT mostly rivals Nvidia's GTX 1650 SUPER, with the two graphics cards trading blows across the ten games we tested. The RX 5500 XT is geared towards modern 1080p gaming and comes in two versions- one with 4GB GDDR6 memory and another with 8GB GDDR6 memory.

For comparison, here is the spec chart for the RX 5500 XT next to the RX 5700 series and the older RX Vega series:

GPU	RX 5500 XT	RX 5700	RX 5700 XT	RX Vega 56	RX Vega 64
Architecture	Navi	Navi	Navi	Vega 10	Vega 10
Manufacturing Process	7nm	7nm	7nm	14nm	14nm
Transistor Count	6.4 billion	10.3 billion	10.3 billion	12.5 billion	12.5 billion
Die Size	158mm²	251mm²	251mm²	486mm²	495mm²
Compute Units	22	36	40	56	64
Stream Processors	1408	2304	2560	3584	4096
Base GPU Clock	n/a	Up to 1465MHz	Up to 1605MHz	1156 MHz	1274 MHz
Game GPU Clock	Up to 1717MHz	Up to 1625MHz	Up to 1755MHz	n/a	n/a
Boost GPU Clock	Up to 1845MHz	Up to 1725MHz	Up to 1905MHz	1471 MHz	1546 MHz
Peak SP Performance	Up to 5.20 TFLOPS	Up to 7.95 TFLOPS	Up to 9.75 TFLOPS	Up to 10.5 TFLOPS	Up to 12.7 TFLOPS
Peak Half Precision Performance	Up to 10.4 TFLOPS	Up to 15.9 TFLOPS	Up to 19.5 TFLOPS	Up to 21.0 TFLOPS	Up to 25.3 TFLOPS
Peak Texture Fill-Rate	Up to 162.4 GT/s	Up to 248.4 GT/s	Up to 304.8 GT/s	Up to 330.0 GT/s	Up to 395.8 GT/s
ROPs	32	64	64	64	64
Peak Pixel Fill-Rate	Up to 59.0 GP/s	Up to 110.4 GP/s	Up to 121.9 GP/s	Up to 94.0 GP/s	Up to 98.9 GP/s
Memory	4/8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB HBM	8GB HBM
Memory Bandwidth	224 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	410 GB/s	483.8 GB/s
Memory Interface	128-bit	256-bit	256-bit	2048-bit	2048-bit
Board Power	130W	185W	225W	210W	295W

The RX 5500 XT will occupy the £150 to £180 market segment here in the UK. We already have reviews up for the ASRock Challenger and Sapphire Pulse AiB cards. If you want to pick one up, then Overclockers UK is currently taking pre-orders for the PowerColor reference model at £159.95 and the PowerColor Red Dragon custom-cooled variant at £179.99. More board partner cards will be made available in the weeks to come.

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KitGuru Says: The RX 5500 XT is here, offering competitive 1080p gaming performance under the £200 price point. Are any of you thinking about picking one of these up? 

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