Full gaming tests of the AMD Radeon RX 5500 GPU with the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor in 4K 2160p, 2K 1440p, FullHD 1080p screen resolutions and also with multiple graphics quality settings: Ultra, High, Medium and Low. You can understand the AMD Radeon RX 5500 is good or bad for gaming by looking at benchmark results. To find out how good a video card is for games, let's take a look at the main characteristic. The average FPS in games is 28.1 FPS with 4K resolution and Ultra settings. Considering 4Gb of memory, we can say that the Radeon RX 5500 is good for most games with medium graphics quality settings.
Main specifications
Name
AMD Radeon RX 5500
Release date
November 22, 2019
Price
89 USD
Frequency
1670 MHz
Shaders
1408
TMUs
88
ROPs
32
Graphics Card Power (TDP)
110 W
Memory Size
4 Gb
Memory Bus
128 Bit
Radeon RX 5500 power supply requirements
If you take a closer look at the power consumption of the GPU, you can already draw certain conclusions. This will let you to choose the needed power supply that will fully match the GPU. You also need to remember about the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 . The CPU also affects the number of watts that the desired power supply should output.A rather powerful power supply is required for the Radeon RX 5500, since it has a pretty high power consumption under loads - 110W. Here is a list of several famous games in which the GPU has been tested. Next is the table with a large number of almost all modern games that were run on a computer with the Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600 configuration:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Fortnite Battle Royale
Hogwarts Legacy
Apex Legends
Hitman 3
Far Cry 6
Roblox
League of Legends
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Valorant
Genshin Impact
Minecraft
Atomic Heart
The best alternative to AMD Radeon RX 5500
After reviewing the data from the table below, you can easily compare the Radeon RX 5500 with rivals in several popular games and choose for yourself the best cheap alternative and NVIDIA GeForce equivalent to the Radeon RX 5500.
The closest rivals of the Radeon RX 5500
Video Card
FPS
GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
93
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
92.4
GeForce RTX 3050
92
GeForce GTX 1660
87.2
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
83
GeForce GTX 980
80
Radeon RX 5500 XT
74.6
Radeon RX 580
74.6
GeForce GTX 1060
71.7
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile
68
Radeon RX 5500
67.3
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
67.2
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
62
GeForce GTX 1650
57.9
GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
52
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
39.3
The closest rivals of the Radeon RX 5500 are GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile and GeForce GTX 780 Ti. We compared Radeon RX 5500 (67.3 FPS) and their medium FPS in popular games at Full HD resolution and with High Quality graphics. As a result, is GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 68 FPS, which 1.0% faster and GeForce GTX 780 Ti 67.2 FPS, which is 0.1% slower. These figures will further help you make the right decision.
How good is Radeon RX 5500 for games?
From the tables below, you can see how comfortable you can play famous games on a computer with a Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600. The numbers beside to the names of the games mean the average FPS gained with Ultra graphics quality settings and different screen resolutions: Full HD, 2K WQHD and 4K UHD. In the following table, testing the Radeon RX 5500 in the newest and upcoming games.
Game
Year
Ultra
High
Middle
Low
Spider-Man Remastered
2022
26.2
34.1
44.6
55.0
Saints Row
2022
32.1
41.7
54.5
67.4
Elden ring
2022
17.2
22.3
29.2
36.1
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
2023
19.0
24.7
32.3
39.9
Starfield
2022
15.8
20.6
26.9
33.2
Dying light 2 Stay Human
2022
28.0
36.4
47.6
58.8
Atomic Heart
2023
10.8
14.1
18.4
22.8
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl
2022
17.6
22.9
30.0
37.0
God of War: Ragnarok
2022
28.9
37.6
49.2
60.7
Rainbow Six Extraction
2022
24.4
31.7
41.5
51.2
Stray
2022
48.4
62.9
82.2
101.6
A Plague Tale: Requiem
2022
19.4
25.3
33.0
40.8
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
2023
16.7
21.7
28.4
35.1
Scorn
2022
17.6
22.9
30.0
37.0
The Cycle: Frontier
2022
30.3
39.4
51.5
63.6
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
2022
23.5
30.6
40.0
49.4
Homeworld 3
2022
22.1
28.8
37.6
46.5
Overwatch 2
2022
43.4
56.4
73.8
91.1
And this table shows the performance of the Radeon RX 5500 in the most demanding graphics games.
Game
Year
Ultra
High
Middle
Low
Gears of War 5
2019
36.1
46.9
61.4
75.8
Total War: Warhammer
2016
44.6
58.0
75.8
93.7
GreedFall
2019
40.8
53.1
69.4
85.7
Need For Speed: Heat
2019
33.4
43.4
56.7
70.0
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
2018
22.6
29.4
38.4
47.5
Dishonored 2
2016
34.2
44.4
58.1
71.7
Halo Infinite
2021
25.8
33.5
43.8
54.1
Hitman 2
2018
44.3
57.6
75.3
93.0
Crysis 3
2013
44.4
57.7
75.4
93.2
Genshin Impact
2020
39.3
51.1
66.8
82.6
Microsoft Flight Simulator
2020
13.5
17.6
23.0
28.4
Monster Hunter: World
2018
38.6
50.2
65.6
81.1
Metro Exodus
2019
24.8
32.3
42.2
52.1
Devil May Cry 5
2019
40.2
52.3
68.4
84.5
Just Cause 4
2018
35.8
46.6
60.9
75.3
Death Stranding
2020
41.1
53.4
69.8
86.3
The Division
2016
40.0
51.9
67.9
83.9
The Witcher 3
2015
40.0
52.1
68.1
84.1
Hitman 3
2021
30.7
40.0
52.2
64.5
Godfall
2020
40.0
52.0
68.0
84.0
F1 22
2020
39.3
51.1
66.8
82.6
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
2016
35.5
46.1
60.3
74.5
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
2020
28.5
37.0
48.4
59.8
Cyberpunk 2077
2020
20.4
26.6
34.7
42.9
Red Dead Redemption 2
2019
21.2
27.6
36.1
44.6
Far Cry New Dawn
2019
44.9
58.4
76.4
94.3
Final Fantasy XV
2018
38.0
49.4
64.5
79.7
Anthem
2019
30.7
39.9
52.2
64.4
DOOM Eternal
2020
42.0
54.6
71.5
88.3
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
2016
29.5
38.3
50.1
61.9
Assassin's Creed Origins
2017
32.7
42.5
55.5
68.6
Forza Horizon 5
2021
32.5
42.3
55.3
68.3
Horizon Zero Dawn
2020
44.3
57.6
75.3
93.0
Resident Evil Village
2021
30.7
40.0
52.2
64.5
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
2017
38.5
50.0
65.4
80.8
Final Fantasy 7 Remake
2021
28.5
37.0
48.4
59.8
World War Z
2019
44.7
58.1
76.0
93.9
Far Cry 6
2021
33.9
44.1
57.6
71.2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
2020
20.7
26.8
35.1
43.4
F1 2021
2020
43.8
57.0
74.5
92.1
Borderlands 3
2019
28.7
37.2
48.7
60.2
Project CARS 3
2020
20.8
27.0
35.3
43.7
Marvel's Avengers
2020
26.7
34.7
45.4
56.1
Grand Theft Auto V
2015
44.6
57.9
75.8
93.6
Mass Effect: Andromeda
2017
44.3
57.6
75.3
93.0
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
2020
35.6
46.2
60.5
74.7
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
2019
43.8
57.0
74.5
92.1
Metal: Hellsinger
2021
33.0
42.9
56.1
69.3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
2018
35.6
46.2
60.5
74.7
Ghost Recon Wildlands
2017
36.4
47.4
61.9
76.5
Radeon RX 5500 4Gb with Ryzen 5 3600 gaming benchmark The performance results of the Radeon RX 5500 from the following table are just for information, because it mainly presents old games and FPS is significantly more than 100.
Game
Year
Ultra
High
Middle
Low
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
2017
57.8
75.2
98.3
121.5
Far Cry New Dawn
2019
44.9
58.4
76.4
94.3
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
2018
53.4
69.4
90.7
112.1
Strange Brigade
2018
58.2
75.6
98.9
122.1
DiRT Rally
2015
71.3
92.7
121.2
149.7
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
2012
132.3
172.0
225.0
277.9
Fortnite Battle Royale
2017
46.4
60.3
78.9
97.5
Battlefield 1
2016
56.4
73.4
96.0
118.5
Rocket League
2015
193.0
250.9
328.1
405.3
Project CARS 2
2017
46.9
60.9
79.7
98.4
Apex Legends
2019
47.6
61.9
80.9
99.9
Titanfall 2
2016
48.8
63.5
83.0
102.5
Battlefield 4
2013
62.9
81.7
106.9
132.0
Destiny 2
2017
62.5
81.3
106.3
131.3
Battlefield V
2018
47.6
61.9
80.9
99.9
Doom
2016
71.0
92.4
120.8
149.2
Need For Speed
2015
53.5
69.6
91.0
112.4
Roblox
2006
155.9
202.7
265.1
327.4
Rainbow Six Siege
2015
93.7
121.9
159.3
196.8
Valorant
2020
90.7
117.9
154.2
190.5
Resident Evil 2
2019
51.5
67.0
87.6
108.2
F1 2019
2019
46.5
60.5
79.1
97.8
League of Legends
2009
248.1
322.5
421.8
521.0
Hitman
2016
45.2
58.8
76.8
94.9
Rise of the Tomb Raider
2016
55.2
71.7
93.8
115.9
Forza Motorsport 7
2017
56.8
73.8
96.5
119.2
For Honor
2017
66.2
86.0
112.5
138.9
Dawn of War III
2017
48.6
63.2
82.7
102.1
Minecraft
2011
105.8
137.5
179.8
222.1
Dota 2
2013
64.6
84.0
109.9
135.7
Need For Speed: Payback
2017
49.6
64.5
84.4
104.2
Fallout 76
2018
58.0
75.4
98.6
121.9
Although you can't dispute with the numbers from this table, but you need to know that in reality some processors and video cards will not be capable to work in pairs. In such cases, FPS is evaluated according to a theoretical formula based on the results of tests of the CPU and the GPU.
