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Radeon RX 5500 bottleneck & FPS

Ranked 86 of 126 desktop graphics cards in our database (32th percentile). Paired with a Core i3-8100F it lands near 24 fps at 1080p and 2 fps at 4K in a typical AAA title at high settings.

SpecificationsRDNA · 2019
ArchitectureRDNA
Shading units1,408
Boost clock1,845 MHz
Memory4 GB
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s
Board power150 W
Released2019
Frame rate by resolutionwith Core i3-8100F, high
ResolutionEst. FPSGPU loadLimited by
1920 x 1080 24 99% Graphics card
2560 x 1440 10 99% Graphics card
3440 x 1440 6 98% Graphics card
3840 x 2160 2 99% Graphics card
Best matched processors1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes, not by which processor is fastest. The fastest chip pairs well with everything, which makes it a useless recommendation.

ProcessorEst. FPSUnused
Core i3-8100F 24 55.6%
Core i3-8100 24 55.6%
Core i3-8300 24 56.8%
Core i3-8350K 24 60%
Core i3-9100 24 61.9%
Core i3-9100F 24 61.9%
Estimated FPS by game1440p, high, Core i3-8100F
GameEst. FPSVRAM
Cyberpunk 2077 4 11.5 GB needed
Fortnite 17 6.7 GB needed
Counter-Strike 2 66 4 GB needed
Baldur's Gate 3 10 8.1 GB needed
Red Dead Redemption 2 6 9.4 GB needed
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 6 10.8 GB needed

What to expect from a Radeon RX 5500

This card sits in the lower part of the range we model. It will run modern titles at 1080p with settings turned down, and it will be the limiting component in almost any pairing — which means there is no sense pairing it with an expensive processor.

If frame rates are disappointing, the card is where an upgrade will help. Nothing else in the system is holding it back.

4 GB is this card's real limit

13 of the 16 titles we model exceed 4 GB at 1440p and high settings. On this card memory, not shader throughput, is the thing that will make modern games stutter. Texture quality is the setting to lower first, and it usually costs less visual fidelity than the alternatives.

A note on age

Released in 2019, this card is 7 years old. Beyond raw speed, older hardware misses features newer engines increasingly assume — mesh shaders, hardware ray tracing, and the newest upscalers. A modern title may run worse than these numbers suggest, or refuse to launch, for reasons the model cannot see.

Where it sits

Ranked 86 of 126 desktop cards we model. Nearest faster: GeForce RTX 3050, GeForce RTX 2060. Just below: Radeon RX 5500 XT 4GB, Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB. Full method on the methodology page.