AMD has held the reins in the budget video card market for quite some time with multiple successful launches and production runs of video cards like the RX 480. However, time is never in anyone's favor. After all, you can only refresh the same GPU so many times before it comes apparent that it isn't up to the task for newer big-budget AAA games. Thus the GPU lifecycle begins anew. Out with the old and in with the new. That is exactly what the RX 5500 XT aims to do, by keeping things fresh.