MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8 GB
December, 2019Type
Graphics CardPrice
$224.99 USMSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8 GB Power Consumption
I compiled the power consumption results by testing each card under idle and full stress when the card was running games. Each graphics card manufacturer sets a default TDP for the card which can vary from vendor to vendor depending on the extra clocks or board features they plugin on their custom cards.
AMD Radeon RX 5500 series is based on TSMC's 7nm process node. The 7nm process is a major upgrade over the 14nm FinFET node, delivering better efficiency and a much smaller chip footprint. The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X has a TDP of 130W and its power consumption is very much close to that in our testing with slight peaks when the card hits peak clocks but those are not fully sustained for longer duration workloads.
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The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X graphics card for just a $25 US premium over the MSRP gives you an absolute beast of a cooler with fantastic aesthetics, cool & quiet operation, a custom PCB with a factory overclock and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory for under $250 US while delivering performance on par or even better in some cases than the GTX 1660.
- A true replacement for Radeon RX 400/500 series
- Faster Than GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB Graphics Card
- Massive 8 GB GDDR6 memory under $250 US
- Huge efficiency increase over Polaris cards
- Runs very cool and quiet with 0db fan technology
- Great factory overclock out of the box
- Amazing Shroud design with Twin Frozr 7
- Performance and Silent Mode Options in Dragon Center App
- TORX 3.0 cooling system with finned aluminum heatsink
- First GPUs Built Entirely on 7nm Process node
- PCI-e Gen 4.0 Support
- Good I/O (DSC 1.2a for 8K 60 Hz, Triple Display Ports 1.4 HDR, HDMI 2.0)
Pros
- Very High Price ($224.99 US)
- No dedicated hardware for Ray Tracing
- Not a lot of overclocking headroom left
- Power consumption still not on par with NVIDIA's 12nm
Cons
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