I'm still hoping to get one before Christmas, but to be honest, I'd be surprised if it made a dent on the RX 5500 XT, because AMD's new 1080p-oriented GPU is so far in front of the regular GTX 1650 rival that the Super would have to pull off a serious last-minute upset to make it even worth considering at this price. Alas, I still haven't been able to get my hands on one of these because Nvidia won't send me one themselves and third party cards seem to be in very short supply.

'What about the GTX 1650 Super?' I hear you cry. Now, I know there's an elephant in the room here. What matters is that this card kicks Nvidia's GTX 1650 in the middle of next week and is pretty much neck and neck with their similarly priced GTX 1660 cards. It's all sounds a bit fishy if you ask me, but truth be told, it's not really that important. Yet, the RX 5500 and RX 5500 XT not only share the same number of compute units (22) and the same number of stream processors (1408), but they also have the same 'game' clock of 1717MHz, as well as an identical max clock speed of 1845MHz, too (game clock being AMD's new term for the typical clock speed you'll see when playing games).

After all, if AMD's higher-end RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT are anything to go by, the 'XT' is effectively AMD's answer to Nvidia's 'Super' name, signifying a superior version of its non-XT sibling. Take a closer look at the RX 5500 XT's specs, however, and you might be wondering where the XT bit comes in. Perhaps it's so you can feel a teensy bit better about opting for their hot off the press Radeon RX 5500 XT instead, which you can go and buy right now in both 4GB and 8GB GDDR6 memory variants for £160 / $170 and £180 / $200. Instead, the only place you'll find them is inside a pre-built PC. Turns out, the RX 5500 isn't actually a graphics card you can buy off the shelf.

When AMD first announced their new budget Big Navi card, the Radeon RX 5500, back at the beginning of October, I was expecting review samples to follow swiftly after it.

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