MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8 GB GDDR6 Graphics Card Review – Navi 14 With High End Cooling For $225 US

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8 GB Benchmarks (VULKAN)

DOOM

In 2016, Id finally released DOOM. My testing wouldn’t be complete without including this title. All cards were capable of delivering ample frame rates at the 1440p resolution using Nightmare settings, so my focus turned to 4K.

Red Dead Redemption II

RDR2 is using the latest iteration of the Rockstar Advanced Graphics Engine, or RAGE, and has ditched DX11 in favor of being able to choose between Vulkan or DX12 for your preferred API.  Red Dead Redemption 2 has built-in benchmark utility that is fairly representative of typical gameplay and we used this to measure our performance.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Wolfenstein is back in The New Colossus and features the most fast-paced, gory and brutal FPS action ever! The game once again puts us back in the Nazi-controlled world as BJ Blazkowicz. Set during an alternate future where Nazis won the World War, the game shows that it can be fun and can be brutal to the player and to the enemy too. Powering the new title is once again, id Tech 6 which is much acclaimed after the success that DOOM has become. In a way, ID has regained their glorious FPS roots and are slaying with every new title.

Ultra HQ-AF, Vulkan, Async Compute On *if available, Deferred Rendering and GPU culling off

We tested the game at Ultra settings under the Vulkan API which is standard. Async Compute was enabled for graphics cards that support it while deferred rendering and GPU culling were disabled.

You can read our detailed analysis of GPU Culling and Deferred Rendering graphical settings for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus here!

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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.

Pros

• 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)

Cons

• 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

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