Radeon RX 5500 XT
AMD graphics card · Radeon RX 5000 series · launched December 2019
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Launch price in today's dollars
The Radeon RX 5500 XT launched at $169 in 2019. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $219 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 30% rise over 7 years. At its launch price that is 298 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2019 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 504 (middle half of runs 485–516) across 50 community runs on Blender 4.x with the HIP backend. That is #80 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #4 of 4 in the Radeon RX 5000 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | AMD |
|---|---|
| Series | Radeon RX 5000 series |
| Launched | December 2019 |
| Launch price | $169 |
| Architecture | RDNA |
| Chip | Radeon RX 5500 XT (Navi 14) |
| Memory | 4 GB (also 8 GB) |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,717 MHz |
| FP32 compute | 5.2 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 130 W (TBP) |
| Transistors | 6.4 billion |
| Die size | 158 mm² |
| Process | 7 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Tier | 50-class |
The AMD 50-class over time
AMD graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radeon HD 4570 | 2008 | — | — | — |
| Radeon HD 5550 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| Radeon HD 5570 | 2010 | $80 | $121 | — |
| Radeon HD 3570 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| Radeon HD 6570 | 2011 | $79 | $116 | — |
| Radeon HD 4580 | 2011 | — | — | — |
| Radeon R7 250 | 2013 | $89 | $126 | — |
| Radeon R7 250E | 2013 | $109 | $155 | — |
| Radeon R7 250X | 2014 | $99 | $138 | — |
| Radeon R7 350 | 2016 | $89 | $123 | — |
| Radeon RX 550 | 2017 | $79 | $107 | — |
| Radeon RX 550 640SP | 2017 | $79 | $107 | — |
| Radeon RX 550X | 2018 | $79 | $104 | — |
| Radeon RX 5500 XT | 2019 | $169 | $219 | 504 |
| Radeon RX 6500 XT | 2022 | $199 | $225 | 467 |
| Radeon RX 9050 | 2026 | $279 | $279 | — |
Compare with
- Radeon RX 5600 XT · 2020 · $279 · 645
- GeForce GTX 1650 · 2019 · $149 · 429
- GeForce GTX 1650 Super · 2019 · $159 · 547
- GeForce GTX 1660 · 2019 · $219 · 690
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