MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G Benchmark and Specs

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G is equipped with 22 execution and 1408 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS is achieved.

Based on

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

GPU Chip

Navi 14 XTX (RDNA 1)

Streaming Multiprocessors

22

Shader

1408

Render Output Units

32

Texture Units

88

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G has a 128 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s is achieved. In total, 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size

8 GB

Memory Type

GDDR6

Memory Clock

1.750 GHz

Memory Speed

14.0 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

Memory Interface

128 bit

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G with 1.685 GHz (base clock) or with 1.845 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock

1.685 GHz+5 %

Boost Clock

1.845 GHz

Avg (Game) Clock

1.737 GHz+1 %

Overclocking

Yes

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G has 1 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

TDP

130 W

Tjunction max

95 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 8-Pin

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G is equipped with 2 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 90 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Noise (Load)

39 dB

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.3 version.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.3

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0b

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.4

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_1.

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12_1

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

MSI Mystic Light

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

Decode

VP9

Decode / Encode

AV1

No

The dimensions of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G are 247 mm in length, 128 mm in height and 47 mm in width. Thus 3 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length

247 mm

Height

128 mm

Width

47 mm

Width (Slots)

3 PCIe-Slots

Weight

869 g

SFF-Ready

No

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming X 8G is manufactured in a structure width of 7 nm and has a PCIe 4.0 x 8 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q3/2019.

GPU Interface

PCIe 4.0 x 8

Release date

Q3/2019

Launch Price

169 $ (Reference)

Structure size

7 nm

Documents

data sheet