AMD may be pumping up the graphics card game with the Radeon RX 5500 XT

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AMD may not wait any longer for the highly anticipated Radeon RX 5500, which the company unveiled back in October. According to VideoCardz, the new graphics card, especially the rumored Radeon RX 5500 XT to be announced, is expected to be available next week. There are still few details about the Radeon RX 5500 XT. We know that the 5500-series graphics cards will have 22 compute units with 1408 stream processors, just over half the number in the RX 5700 XT. The new cards will use a 128-bit memory bus (half that of the 5700 series) and offer up to 8GB of GDDR6, according to an official AMD slide, shared by Hot Hardware. This leaves room for guessing what the RX 5500 and 5500 XT could do. Both cards need to differ in one way or another, and if it's not in stream processors or clock speeds, it could be in memory. VideoCardz believes that the RX 5500 may contain just 4GB of GDDR6 memory, while the RX 5500 XT could offer 4GB and 8GB variants, just like the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 comes in 3GB and 6GB variants.

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AMD is playing strong against Intel on the processor side and Nvidia on the graphics processor side. It worked for AMD in the processor battle, Ryzen CPUs give Intel market share, but Nvidia cards still offer the most high-end power. AMD has always managed to advance Nvidia's market share and these new Radeon RX 5500 series cards could help it further conquer the budget market. Team Red will be in a position to challenge Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1650 and 1660 models, including Ti and Super versions. Given that Nvidia has six graphics processors in the mid-range at low frequencies, it makes sense for AMD to introduce several versions of the RX 5500. Benchmarks have revealed that the Radeon RX 5500 is serious competition for the GTX 1650. One more 5500 XT powerful could be the card to be used against the GTX 1660. If the new graphics cards come out this month, we might be able to -- to see how the competition is heating up just in time for the next shopping spree.