10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the Radeon RX 5500 XT Sapphire Pulse 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.

Here is a performance review on how capable the Radeon RX 5500 XT Sapphire Pulse 4GB is at running the more popular games of 2023. Specifically looking at this PC hardware’s ability to get suitable frames per second to play on Ultra game settings and what FPS it might get on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen res. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 716 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

Running at 1080p this card is predicted to get a playable frame rate from Grand Theft Auto VI with 28 FPS on Ultra. Then we take a look at FIFA 22 which returns a strong 102 FPS. Another title that we looked at is the popular Resident Evil 8 which we saw getting a playable 28 FPS.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We predict the Radeon RX 5500 XT Sapphire Pulse 4GB will run the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto VI to a weak performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 55 FPS, Medium: 44 FPS, High: 29 FPS and Ultra: 21 FPS. Another game tested was FIFA 22, L: 205FPS, M: 162FPS, H: 109FPS, U: 78FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Resident Evil 8, which returned L: 55FPS, M: 44FPS, H: 29FPS, U: 21FPS at 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the Radeon RX 5500 XT Sapphire Pulse 4GB is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the Radeon RX 5500 XT Sapphire Pulse 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX 5500 XT Sapphire Pulse 4GB 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 Sapphire Pulse 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 Sapphire Pulse 4GB.