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, Sapphire can't 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 a really acceptable power consumption, but it is still 25 watts above the GeForce GTX 1650 Super. But it finally stays much cooler and therefore also quieter, which makes the Radeon RX 5500 XT an interesting card in general, if you consider the accompanying circumstances, such as the current price, let's leave out.
The implementation of Sapphire has been successful, the board has been solidly equipped and the cooler is completely sufficient. Only the somewhat hilarious fan curve would be annoying if the speeds were not so nicely low that you hardly hear the card anyway. Thus AMDs-Fuzzy-Gehopse puts itself a little into perspective at the fan curve, because to attach something like this to Tjunction is already very strange. But as already mentioned – the MorePowerTool can help.
Conclusion
It is a solid card without much frills, which Sapphire delivered with the Pulse here. However, I would completely ignore the 4GB version, as it suffers from the very tight PCIe bandwidth when the memory available on the card runs out. The 8GB version rarely shows these symptoms to never, so you can live with them. It's a Full HD card and the target audience will certainly be able to arrange.
In the end, the price will decide how much acceptance will be for the RX 5500 XT in general and this Sapphire Pulse in particular. Sapphire has delivered, now the market needs to clean up what AMD has somewhat unnecessarily forgiven at launch with far too much optimism at the EIA. Let's see what's next, because the cards are, compared to Nvidia, just too expensive for bidding.
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