10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB 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.

This PC hardware performance game review for the Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB graphics card, when running 2023 more popular games, lets us see what type of FPS this card gets when playing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions and ultra settings. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 716 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB is predicted to run Star Citizen with reasonable performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 55 frames per second. Comparing this to Battlefield 2042 which is getting weak results, where it averages 20 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Far Cry 6, which is running at 30 frames per second.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we researched Star Citizen on the Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB and predict it will get a playable set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra predictions at 1440p - L: 110FPS, M: 86FPS, H: 58FPS, U: 42FPS. Another popular game to test at 1440p with this card was Battlefield 2042 which seemed weak in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 15 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Far Cry 6 where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were weak at 23 FPS. Running games at 1440p with a Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB 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 MSI Gaming X 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon RX 5500 XT MSI Gaming X 4GB? 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 MSI Gaming X 4GB.