Graphics cards/AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
AMD · Radeon RX 5000 · Desktop
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is AMD’s RDNA desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 1,408 shading units and a boost clock of 1845 MHz.
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Overview
The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is AMD’s RDNA desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 1,408 shading units and a boost clock of 1845 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- RDNA
- Shading units
- 1,408
- Base clock
- Not verified
- Boost clock
- 1845 MHz
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Memory bus
- Not verified
- Game clock
- 1717 MHz
- Compute units
- 22
- TDP
- 130 W
- Process
- Not verified
- Launched
- 2019-12-12
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
AMD's typical clock while gaming. A different quantity from a base clock.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchitectureRDNA | Release text | ir.amd.comLaunch release | |
| Shading units1,408 | Stream Processors | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Boost clock1845 MHz | Boost Frequency | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Memory8 GB | Max Memory Size | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Memory typeGDDR6 | Memory Type | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Game clock1717 MHz | Game Frequency | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Compute units22 | Compute Units | amd.comSpecification page | |
| TDP130 W | Typical Board Power (Desktop) | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Launched2019-12-12 | Launch Date | amd.comSpecification page |
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What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.