XFX - THICC II Pro AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card - Black
Model: RX-55XT8DFD6
SKU: 6395985
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This is a basic easy cheap gpu for basic uses not for hard gaming but a great gpu to just start with for a low price.
Posted by Almightypro
I purchased this for HTPC use in the living room (media consumption, not gaming). Why this over a cheaper Polaris-based RX 560/570/580 product? A few reasons: 1) Power consumption. The living room PC is left on 24/7 and the older AMD cards use much more power, even in idle-state. 2) Video codec support. AMD's new RDNA graphics cards implement new video decoding support for VP9 decoding, which is especially important for Youtube. While the older products support H.264/H.265 at 4K 60Hz, they do not natively support VP9 decoding, which means that a lot of work is needlessly offloaded to the CPU. 3) Play-Ready 3.0 compliant - Important for playing DRM content (e.g. native Netflix app on Windows). Overall, it's a decent card that does everything I need it to do. I suppose it would make a good entry-level gaming GPU as well due to having 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, but it's annoying that AMD decided to limit the memory bus width to 128-bit and the memory speeds to 1860MHz.
Posted by Drew
No complaints on this GPU yet...works excellent, quiet fans. Looks beautiful with the nice matte black backplate. In the $200 price range, nothing beats the XFX Thicc II 5500 XT
Posted by francis