The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Review, Feat. Sapphire Pulse: Navi For 1080p
by Ryan Smith on December 12, 2019 9:00 AM ESTCompute
While I’m including compute performance for the sake of completeness here, the compute situation on Navi has not substantially changed since the launch of the Radeon RX 5700 series over 5 months ago. AMD’s Adrenaline 2020 software has improved the state of their OpenCL drivers slightly – there are fewer hard crashes and performance is up in some cases – but their drivers are still dysfunctional and not fit for production use. In particular, Folding@Home and parts of CompuBench are still unable to run (and SETI@Home users will want to stay clear too).
AMD is aware of the issue, unfortunately they don’t have any updates to offer on the situation. I am of the distinct impression that AMD has made OpenCL on Windows a low priority for now, and has opted to focus their software efforts on bringing up additional Navi GPUs, as well as improving Navi gaming performance and continuing to develop their ROCm platform for Linux. So anyone looking to do GPU compute on AMD’s GPUs would best be served by using Vega or Polaris cards if they’re using to Windows, or switching to Linux for these matters.
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qwertymac93 - Sunday, December 15, 2019 - link
As this card is based on the same RDNA1 architecture as the 5700 series AMD has had months to optimize performance. It isn't likely the overall rankings will change much unless the new consoles bring a major shift in game developer optimization priorities.peevee - Monday, December 16, 2019 - link
"the company is also bundling the forthcoming “Master Edition” of Monster Hunter: Iceborne. This is the Iceborne expansion bundled with the base game"They'd better reduce price by $10-20 to be price-competitive with 1650 Super.
marees - Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - link
Given the average performance value of this card, it seems to me gamers who want a budget card for 1080p are better off, waiting for the xbox series S !?Korguz - Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - link
and what if the games the person plays.. are not on a console ? then what ?peevee - Friday, December 20, 2019 - link
So why would you prefer this over 1660?kayfabe - Tuesday, December 24, 2019 - link
Because the 4gb version is ~$30 cheaper and some gamers like monster hunter or quiet computing. The bottom line is that these products are far enough down the pricing totem pole that a good rebate or bundle can sway people pretty easily--at this range you're hunting minimally enjoyable functionality, not future proofing. Personally, I'm holding out until at least ampere arrives before I start throwing money around again.toke - Saturday, August 8, 2020 - link
Anybody seen any comparisons of IDLE power use of real cards?I'd like to choose the one with least among 570, 580, 590 or 5500.
Are all the reviews like this one, idle power use against manuf. ref. cards?