Summary
It is idle to comment on AMD's decision to cut a cut- only eight-fold PCIe connection. Normally this is sufficient, but when accessing the shared memory requires a fourth-generation PCIe slot if there is to be no major losses. Normally you will rarely get into these unpleasant situations, but unfortunately this is no longer future-proof in this form. However, gigabytes cannot do anything extra, because this was planned and implemented by AMD.
The chip itself does what it is supposed to do and not even badly. You land between a Radeon RX 590 and RX 580 with an even more acceptable power consumption, but a whopping 40 watts above the GeForce GTX 1650 Super. The card is not bad if you look at the accompanying circumstances, such as the current price, elegantly left out. The conversion of gigabytes is acceptable, although not quiet, the board has been solidly equipped and the cooler is sufficient.
The fact that you rely on the DHT principle with ground heatpipes instead of a copper heat sink is pure cost-down and does not make the cooling any better, on the contrary. In order to tame the GPU, you have to propeller really hard. And the decision to bet on three, but quite small, 7.5 cm fans is revenge in the acoustic chamber. These little ones need a very high speed to perform at all. This may work for the Asian market, where volume also implies performance, but it's not really pleasant.
Conclusion
It's a solid card without big frills, the 8GB is a nice dowry, but it doesn't make the price any better. At the current rate of more than 230 euros, this card should not be easy, at least in Europe, as long as the buyer is not overly brand-savvy. The board is still with the best of this card, which is unfortunately counteracted by the somewhat weak and loud cooler.
In the end, the price will have to decide what acceptance will be for the RX 5500 XT in general and this Gigabyte Gaming OC in particular. Gigabyte has submitted that now the market needs to clean up what AMD has somewhat unnecessarily forgiven at the launch with far too much optimism at the EIA. Let's see what's next, because the cards are just (still) too expensive for what's in the bidding compared to Nvidia. And then there's the RX 5600 XT…
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