

This should help control temps and reduce fan noise. This will intelligently let your graphics card rest when it can, so it can push harder when more throughput is necessary. AMD Radeon Image Sharpening is back, of course, but what's really cool is the new AMD Chill feature.
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Some of the software features genuinely do help with gameplay, too. The best part is that it's all laid out in a very easy to read way, and even if you don't have the constitution to dig through abstract software, you'll be able to get the absolute most out of the Radeon software.

We won't go too crazy in depth on this refreshed software, but through it you can overclock your graphics card, manage installed games and even livestream your gameplay. Team Red has freshened up its Radeon Software making it genuinely useful. There is something new when it comes to AMD's software, too. We were only provided with the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB model but just looking at the raw specs, the only difference seems to be memory capacity – we just don't know how much of an impact it'll have on performance. That card had a 3GB and a 6GB model, but the 6GB model had an additional 128 CUDA cores, so one GTX 1060 was way more powerful than the other. Now we're not exactly huge fans of graphics cards with the same name having different memory configurations, but it at least seems more reasonable than what Nvidia pulled with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 back in the day. There are two configurations of this new graphics card, one with 4GB of RAM and one with 8GB. Now, that's quite the cut from the 2,304 Stream Processors featured in the Radeon RX 5700, so it shouldn't be too surprising that the 5500 XT isn't intended to play games at the same resolution as the higher-specced card. Specifically, this graphics card features 1,408 Stream Processors over 22 compute units, and can hit up to 5.2 teraflops (TFLOPS) of raw compute performance. However, because this is definitely targeting a more budget-oriented audience, you shouldn't expect the same level of hardware inside.

The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is, of course, based on the same rDNA architecture as the AMD Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. (Image credit: Infogram Future) Features and software
