AMD's readiness to introduce the Radeon RX 5500 family of graphics cards on October 14 has become known recently, but the potential basis for new products in the face of the Navi 7 GPU has been discussed for a very long time. Now we can confidently say that the graphics processor will be produced using 158nm technology and will concentrate 2 billion transistors on an area of ββ6,4 mm1408. It has 1845 stream processors and frequencies up to XNUMX MHz, depending on the operating mode.
The novelty is unique in that for the first time in a relatively affordable price segment it offers GDDR6 memory for AMD products and support for the PCI Express 4.0 interface. It was decided to leave the bus 128-bit, but they did not sacrifice the memory frequency, so the effective information transfer rate can reach 14 Gb / s. It is known that desktop graphics cards of the Radeon RX 5500 series can be equipped with both four and eight gigabytes of GDDR6 memory.
AMD's presentation materials compare the Radeon RX 5500 in terms of performance with the Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 1650, a noticeable advantage is quite predictably on the side of the new product. A mobile graphics product called "Radeon RX 5500M" with four gigabytes of GDDR6 memory will also be offered, but reference versions of desktop relatives will certainly not be provided, although for illustrative purposes something similar is shown by the original source. The mobile solution Radeon RX 5500M will be equipped with only 4 GB of memory, the maximum frequency of the graphics processor will not exceed 1645 MHz.
As expected, the presentation was not without demonstrating the advantages of the new 7nm process technology. The area of ββββthe chip of the Radeon RX 5500 graphics processor does not exceed 158 mm2, while it houses 6,4 billion transistors. Comparing the new product with the Radeon RX 480, AMD talks about an increase in specific performance by 70% per unit area of ββthe crystal.
The average advantage of the Radeon RX 5500 over the GeForce GTX 1650 in games can reach 37% at 1080p resolution, the mobile Radeon RX 5500M has an advantage over its rival in the face of the mobile version of the GeForce GTX 1650 can reach 30%. As part of the finished computers and laptops, the Radeon RX 5500 and Radeon RX 5500M video cards will appear before the end of this quarter, but the press release does not say much about retail availability. This explains the lack of information about prices for new items a few hours before the official announcement.
AMD could leave the opportunity to play price wars with NVIDIA, which also introduces new graphics cards this month, but so far it seems that the mystery surrounding the announcement of the Radeon RX 5500 is due precisely to the focus of this product on the OEM segment. However, AMD's press release says that Radeon RX 5500 graphics cards from the company's partners will be released before the end of the quarter, so it makes sense to expect them to appear in retail.
Source: 3dnews.ru