Announced back in October, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is launching today along with several custom variants from AMD's board partners. While the Radeon RX 5700 series targets the upper $300 US+ segment, the Radeon RX 5500 series targets the $150-$200 US segment which brings AMD back in the most crucial graphics market, the budget segment.

The Radeon RX 5500 series uplifts AMD by bringing a modern architecture design and moving away from its GCN design featured on the Polaris GPUs. This allows AMD to bring more streamlined graphics performance in modern workloads and gaming titles. AMD was already ahead of the curve in utilizing new techs such as HBM and smaller process nodes and Navi is no exception. Aside from the new graphics architecture, AMD has also introduced GDDR6 memory and a smaller 7nm process node for their mainstream lineup which is a big update from the 14nm process on Polaris and Vega series cards.