AMD Radeon RX 5500 To Launch Come December 12th

According to a supply cited by China’s Ithome, AMD has contacted AIB on the subject of launch plans for the corporate’s RX 5500, the mainstream graphics playing cards primarily based on Navi 14. For now, there are nonetheless no information on any RX 5500 XT graphics playing cards from the corporate – whether or not or not there’s equivalent to SKU being ready for later launch continues to be unclear. The launch date of December 12th is in keeping with earlier launch expectations, and needs to be a full launch with a number of AIB companions releasing their options.

The RX 5500 has been examined to be a competitor to NVIDIA’s GTX 1660 graphics card, changing AMD’s RX 570, RX 580 and RX 590 graphics playing cards from the product stack. The Navi 14 chip that the RX 5500 is predicated on TSMC’s 7 nm manufacturing know-how, is configured with 22 RDNA compute items (1,408 stream processors), and encompasses a 128-bit vast GDDR6 reminiscence bus. VRAM-wise will probably be obtainable in both four GB or Eight GB of reminiscence working at 14 Gbps data-rate, yielding 224 GB/s of reminiscence bandwidth. GPU clocks are listed as 1670 MHz “Boost,” and 1845 MHz “Gaming”. Typical board energy is rated at 110 W, with a single 8-pin PCIe energy enter being sufficient to ship required energy save for some extra unique AIB designs.