10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

All games with system requirements of DirectX 12 or lower are met by this card.

How well will the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB run 2023 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. 716 games can be played by this graphics card of the 1000 most demanding games being played by PC gamers today.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB can run Star Citizen at 1080p and predict it will return reasonable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 144 FPS, Medium: 113 FPS, High: 76 FPS and Ultra: 55 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that Resident Evil 8 returns a playable 28 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

Increasing resolution to 1440p is something a number of PC gamers are doing today. We tested the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB at 1440p and researched how Star Citizen might perform on it leading us to predict a playable set of FPS results. These were, Low: 110 FPS, Medium: 86 FPS, High: 58 FPS and Ultra: 42 FPS. We then checked out Resident Evil 8 which had a set of graphics results as followed, L: 55FPS, M: 44FPS, H: 29FPS, U: 21FPS. And another popular game was Dying Light 2 that returned L: 72FPS, M: 57FPS, H: 38FPS, U: 27FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB running at 1440p is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

How many years will the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus Dual Evo OC 8GB.