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PayPalPowered by AMD's newer 7nm RDNA architecture, the Radeon RX 5500 XT originally announced in October is now available aimed at the 1080p PC gaming market.
With pricing starting around $169 USD/£159.95 GBP, here's the specifications they supplied for the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT:
- Compute Units: 22
- Stream Processors: 1,408
- TFLOPS: Up to 5.2
- GDDR6 (GB): 4GB/8GB
- Game Clock (MHz): 1,717
- Boost Clock (MHz): "Up to" 1,845
- Memory Interface: 128-bit
You can find the rest of the info on AMD's press release here.
If you want to see how the RX 5500 XT holds up on Linux, Phoronix took a look (AMD doesn't send GOL anything). Looks like it holds up well against the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER. If you're after a reasonably good GPU, at a good price for some Linux 1080p gaming it looks like the Radeon RX 5500 XT is a pretty good choice if you're an AMD fan.
Makes sense to put out good cards for 1080p gaming, it's still the most widely used resolution. Valve's monthly Hardware Survey puts it at 64.63% and nothing else comes close. Our own user survey puts 1080p amongst Linux gamers at around 58.42% too.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
1650 Super is 160€ and 1660 Super which beats it hugely is 230€
and it gets beaten by RX580 and RX590 in most cases which you can find much cheaper imo
at 150€ it would of been quite OK card
Last edited by Xpander on 12 December 2019 at 4:56 pm UTC
And performance will probably improve, thanks to future versions of the kernel and mesa.
The 5600 or 5600XT could be the replacement for my RX580.
But it seems priced a bit high, and the Linux drivers don't seem to be there yet for Navi.
I found an RX570 for $100 (after rebate, unfortunately) and I had a $10 gift card at Newegg. So, $90 for a video card just a hard price to beat, especially since the RX5500XT doesn't seem to provide significant performance gains (although the lower power consumption would be nice). And the RX570 seems like it's tried and true on Linux.
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