- Amd radeon rx 5500 xt 4gb 1080p#
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We're intrigued by Boost - but not entirely sold on it (more on this soon) - but the actual revamp of the software interface to the GPU is next-level stuff when compared to Nvidia's. As well as being blisteringly fast, there's also a new option called Radeon Boost, which essentially maps dynamic resolution scaling to mouse movement for a net improvement to performance when the game is in motion.
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One thing I do think worth mentioning, however, is the new Radeon Adrenalin 2020 driver update - which is far more than just a driver update, but rather a total revamp of the software environment for the Radeon cards, with brilliant profiling tools, a total revamp in presentation, plus in-game access to a ton of information and control panel options. In short, there are a lot of pros and cons to factor into the buying decision here if you can be just a little more elastic about your budget. Right now, this is £10 under MSRP but it shows the degree of latitude available to Nvidia and board partners to make users think twice about a potential RX 5500 XT purchase. And if you're going to pay more, the calculus changes again - because while the GTX 1660 Super is more expensive still than the vanilla offering, at the time of writing, Amazon will sell you a Palit version for under £200 delivered.
However, these may well be stock clearance offers, and the newer, more expensive cards from both Nvidia and AMD are likely to take over in due course.
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A quick search on Amazon reveals some amazing deals for four gig Polaris cards too - these are the real price vs performance winners for 1080p gaming, as good as the 5500 XT is. Yes, they're more power hungry and won't be available in dinky form factors, but in the here and now at least, you can likely find a good factory OC RX 580 or RX 590 with eight gigs of RAM for the same price as an RX 5500 XT 4GB, or perhaps even a touch lower. The reality is that AMD has slashed prices on the RX 570, 580 and 590 and just because a new architecture comes along, that does not suddenly invalidate AMD's older GPUs. However, an on-paper win for the RX 5500 XT has to be tempered with current marketplace conditions. The case for the 8GB model is a touch harder to make in the here and now as there's no out-and-out performance win - in our benchmark suite, at least - but while a touch slower than GTX 1660 in many scenarios, the extra memory likely tips the balance in AMD's favour since MSRP is lower. Alternatively, you can invest £20 more in the eight gig variant, which is undoubtedly more future-proof than either the 4GB model or indeed the GTX 1660.
Simply by paring back your texture settings, the 4GB card can become a lot more potent in VRAM-constrained games and the hit to the presentation at the target 1080p resolution is hardly likely to impact your enjoyment of any given current-gen game. Meanwhile, the compute power of the RX 5500 XT - in both iterations - is almost a match for the GTX 1660 and would likely produce similar performance (if not better in some cases) with further overclocking, which opens up a couple of options. There are future-proofing concerns for a 4GB card, of course, but fundamentally with just a little commonsense, the more limited VRAM set-up can still do what it needs to do. I don't necessarily think that doing so is such a good idea for this class of card though as the embedded video on this page hopefully illustrates. Its only real deficiency is shared with the GTX 1650 Super: it has a 4GB framebuffer, which does have implications if you are hellbent on running everything at ultra. The 5500 XT in its 4GB iteration is priced on par with the GTX 1650 Super and although the Nvidia card is closer to the new Navi offering than AMD may like, it's still a win - you get more performance for the same price and that's the crucial factor. However, stacked up against the competition, the RX 5500 XT looks like an on-paper win for AMD - but not much of a game-changer in terms of the status quo.
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We've reached the point where it's actually quite hard to find an actual 'bad' product from the major players in the PC hardware space and the proliferation of really decent 1080p gaming GPUs in the market certainly makes a distinct purchasing recommendation challenging.