AMD Radeon RX 5500M

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M (or RX 5500 Mobile Graphics) is a mobile mid-range graphics card based on the Navi 14 chip (RDNA architecture) manufactured in the modern 7nm process. It features 1,408 cores clocked at 1,645 MHz (max. Boost, 1448 MHz max game clock) and fast GDDR6 graphics memory (14 Gbps).

The Navi 14 chip uses the new RDNA (Radeon DNA) microarchitecture which is a successor the the GCN instruction set. It features a new processor design, a multi-level cache hierarchy and an improved rendering pipeline with support for GDDR6 memory.

The performance of the RX5500M should be between the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q and the normal GeForce GTX 1660 Ti according to AMD. That means it should be best suited for Full HD (1920x1080) with high or maximum settings in demanding games. AMD states that the 5500M should be able to hit a performance of up to 4,6 TFLOPS (theoretical) versus 5,2 (+12%) of the desktop Radeon 5500. In our gaming benchmarks with the MSI Alpha 15, the RX 5500M however was slightly slower on average than the older GTX 1060 (mobile) and therefore between GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q.

The chip is specified with a TDP of 85 Watt and therefore 20 Watt more than the slower clocked Radeon RX5300M. In games the power consumption of the chip ranges between 64 and 105 Watt (Ghost Recon gameplay recorded with HWInfo64). In the MSI Alpha 15 the power consumption was clearly higher than the GTX 1060 and GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q and only slightly below a normal GTX 1660 Ti (measured in The Witcher 3 with an external monitor).

Radeon RX 5000M Series Radeon RX 5700M 2304 @ 1.47 - 1.72 GHz 256 Bit @ 12000 MHz Radeon RX 5600M 2304 @ 1.27 GHz 192 Bit @ 12000 MHz Radeon RX 5500M 1408 @ 1.33 - 1.65 GHz 128 Bit @ 14000 MHz Radeon RX 5300M 1408 @ 1.04 - 1.45 GHz 96 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Codename	Navi 14 / R19M-E85
Architecture	Navi / RDNA
Pipelines	1408 - unified
Core Speed	1327 - 1645 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed	14000 MHz
Memory Bus Width	128 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory	4 GB
Shared Memory	no
API	DirectX 12, Shader 6.4, OpenGL 4.6
Power Consumption	85 Watt
Transistor Count	6.4 Billion
Man. Technology	7 nm
Features	DisplayPort 1.4 w/DFSC, HDMI 2.0b, Radeon Media Engine (H.264 4K150 decode, 4K90 encode / H.265 4K90 decode, 4K60 encode / VP9 4K90 decode)
Notebook Size	medium sized
Date of Announcement	29.09.2019
Link to Manufacturer Page	www.amd.com

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